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From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Confused on pppd handshaking
To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 01:15:37 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702240626.WAA01831@wiley.csusb.edu> from "William Wong" at Feb 23, 97 10:26:44 pm
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Nevermind!  Idiot me didn't know that the "No matching compression..." line
had nothing to do with the setup not working.  I just didn't have some of the
other parameters (in mgetty and pppd) set correctly.  Please disregard the
following message.



-- 
William T. Wong
Assistant Network Analyst
Cal State University, San Bernardino
  Phone:   (909) 880-7281
  email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu


> 
>   Hmm... I don't know if the following message was lost or if something
> happened or what.  I hope I'm not being obnoxious for reposting this message.
> If there was no response because it's not detailed enough, please let me know
> so that I may append more information at the expense of increased bandwidth.
> I may add that I downloaded the package and made modifications so that support
> for auto ppp would be supported.  Also, was there any reason to use cc instead
> of gcc? I used gcc instead and there doesn't seem to be any problems.  Maybe
> we need flexible packages so that the user is able to choose the features of
> the application before installation takes place.
> 
> > 
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > I can't seem to figure out what this line means:
> > 
> > Feb 22 00:57:30 stimpy pppd[319]: No matching compression scheme, CCP disabled
> > 
> > I'm trying to connect to the FreeBSD server using the Cyclades/mgetty/pppd
> > combination.  The setup works for terminals dialing into it but I seem to be
> > having a hard time with the ppp stuff.  I tried to disable the various
> > compressions in pppd, i.e. -vj, -bsdcomp, but that didn't help.
> > 
> > I'm using Windows 95's dialup networking program to dial into the server.
> > It works going into another setup (Linux box using the Cyclades/mgetty/pppd
> > combination.). :(
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> > 
> 
> -- 
> William T. Wong
> Assistant Network Analyst
> Cal State University, San Bernardino
>   Phone:   (909) 880-7281
>   email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu
> 
> 
>