Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:53:45 +0400 From: "Zaitsev Serg" <mvv@col.ru> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fw: bin/7660: ppp hangups Message-ID: <01bdcc4a$55b826a0$3e0010ac@winproxy.aprcity.com>
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Please, answer where to get "synchronous" ppp program ?
#man sppp
or
#sppp
is absent. Preferrably is "sppp" for FreeBSD 2.2.7 or 2.2.5.
/stand/ppp or /usr/sbin/ppp has no options for "synchronous" ppp.
I can't achieve ppp-link with my ISP's Cisco router by "asynchronous" ppp.
Please, help.
Zaitsev Serg, mvv@col.ru
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: Zaitsev Serg <mvv@col.ru>
Cc: brian@FreeBSD.org <brian@FreeBSD.org>; freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
<freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Date: 20 августа 1998 г. 2:28
Subject: Re: bin/7660: ppp hangups
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for your mail. I haven't included it since it contains
>passwords etc, but I've cc'd this to freebsd-gnats for tracking
>purposes.
>
>It seems that your ISDN link is synchronous - ie, the ``async'' layer
>that data passes through at the link level is not required. This is
>evident by comparing the data you're receiving at the async level
>(async logging) with the data that's being sent at the hdlc level
>(which is then escaped etc. at the async level). Ppp can support this
>in theory, but in practice it's horribly broken and I don't have the
>(hardware) resources to even attempt to fix it.
>
>However, all's not lost. Joerg has done some work on synchronous
>ppp, but you'll need to use the kernel ppp implementation. The
>sppp(4) man page describes how to go about getting things up and
>running.
>
>I'm afraid I know very little about kernel ppp, so if you run into
>difficulties, your best bet is to ask some questions on
>
> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
>
>Sorry I'm not more help.
>
>Cheers.
>
>--
>Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
>Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
>
>
>
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