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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 1997 04:11:49 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        "Giannoni,Marc" <Marc.Giannoni@comsat.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: iijppp 
Message-ID:  <199706200311.EAA07699@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:50:18 EDT." <33A98D7A.349@comsat.com> 

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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

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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