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To: Brian Somers <brian@utell.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ordinary ppp dialing to provider woes 
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> > Hi again,
> > Well, I'm getting closer...
> [.....]
> > Now, the log file shows;  ( and I knew some magic was involved in this)
> > 
> > magic is same!! 5ac0bac0, 5ac0bac0, 56d8
> > 
> [.....]
> > and then it times out and hangs up!
> > 
> > So, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong now!!!
> > sheezzz. 
> 
> I assume you're using -current.
> 
> I've seen this in my test environment recently.  I can't fathom
> what's going on here.  The only thing that's changed recently
> here is that ppp now uses proper random numbers (I have several
> "entrophy" IRQs set up) to generate the magic number.  It doesn't
> fail always - sometimes things are ok (~30% of the time).  This
> is over a direct serial link from a -current box to a RELENG_2_2
> box.  My ISP connection from the -current box has *never* seen
> this problem.
> 
> I'll try undoing the random stuff in GenerateMagic() and see
> if it helps........

And of course the client side now initiates hand-shaking by default.
Can you try putting the line "set openmode passive" in your config
and see if it helps ?

> > tia
> > bob
> 
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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