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To: "Giannoni,Marc" <Marc.Giannoni@comsat.com>
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Subject: Re: iijppp 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I cannot get iijppp to work in any of the automatic modes.
> I can get it to work by dialing my ISP with the 'term' gateway.
> 
> Yes I have checked my 'chat' script.
> Yes I have checked '/etc/ppp/*.conf'
> 
> One other interesting problem is that once I have a good ppp 
> session started (by hand) when I use the 'shell' gateway, the
> ppp link stops!  Exiting the 'shell' gateway resumes the connection.

So say 

  shell sh -c "my command &"

> Examination of the /var/tmp/ppp.log file shows that the thing
> knows how to dial, and can login successfully.  It also enters
> packet mode and LCP undergoes two transitions:
> 
> dail OK!
> login OK!
> LCP: state change Initial --> Closed
> LCP: state change Closed --> Stopped
> 
> Then all is quiet.  Nothing happens.
> 
> What I do see whan I dial my ISP by hand is:
> 
> LCP: state change Initial --> Closed
> LCP: state change Closed --> Stopped
> LCP: Received Configure Request (2) state = Stopped (3)
> ...(and a lot more proto config stuff)
> 
> I have tried this on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and FreeBSD 2.1.0.

Can you post your config ?  Also, try out the ppp progs
on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.  They may help things.

> Marc Giannoni		Marc.Giannoni@comsat.com

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