From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 12:44:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A7E15163 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:44:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22965; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:44:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: PJ Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LD connect problems In-Reply-To: <37635488.1355@mail.greencis.net> 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 Sun, 13 Jun 1999, PJ wrote: > This may be the strangest question this year and I don't know how to > make it easy. > > The problem is I cannot dial LD to my ISP who is in another state who is > running FreeBSD. > > My modem checks out okay and connects just fine when we are in the same > state. When I am home it dials as far as CD and then stops. The error > message says I should check my Network configuration. > > I am not a network. I am a home user and when I check modem_properties > _advanced the log indicates there isn't any communication between the > modems after the initial characters are sent. However using a local dial > up connection I can send/receive mail and Ftp the server. > > I'm stumped. Can you help? The line is too quiet/noisy and the modems are sitting there retraining. Try reducing your initial connect rate so it doesn't timeout retraining. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message