From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 20:28:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09417 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09372 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:28:05 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18085; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kiran Sreenivasamurthy cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp In-Reply-To: <19980420225146.28703.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kiran Sreenivasamurthy wrote: > i have a configuration question regarding PPP on the client > i have an external modem connected thru > a serial port > the modem works fine... the reason being i can > use "tip" and login to the server > but when i use PPP the modem drops the connection > immedialtly after connecting > i am using the standard ppp.conf except with a > minor changes to regarding > authuser and authkey. the server uses PAP authentication > is there anything else i need to do?? Does your ISP allow you to dial in and start sending PPP frames, or do you need to login first? Try looking at /var/log/ppp.log. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message