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To: "Geoffrey Parsons" <geoffrey@deepest.com>
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Subject: Re: PPProblems 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Howdy,
>   I've been trying to get a FreeBSD 2.2.1 box working with the process
> based PPP (aka iijppp). I had the PC connecting to my ISP just fine for
> quite some time and they have since switched to PAP as their sole     
> auth. protocal. PPP will connect up and the send/rec lights will flash 
> back and forth 4-5 times (after the carrier connect phase) and then
> the connection goes dead. When I check the logs files and the only "error" 
> is a "Phase: Dead" error. I've tried cranking the modem speed down to 19200
> and I've disabled compression. This has made no difference. I've also been
> trying to turn up the logging to glean more detail, but I can't seem to 
> find any documention for the log levels of iijppp.
>   Does anyone out there have any ideas on the "Phase: Dead" problem or 
> increasing the log levels of iijppp? 

http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html points to all the current ppp docs.  
Logging in the current version (http://www.freebsd.org/~brian) is far 
better than it used to be.

> Thanks in advance,
> Geoffrey Parsons
> geoffrey@deepest.com
> 

-- 
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