From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 14:58:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A6C15278 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA48026; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:56:50 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12804; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:19:57 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199903221619.QAA12804@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: gkaplan Cc: Brian Somers , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: kermit In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:03:12 EST." <36F65BB0.C7AFF808@castle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:19:57 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This sounds like either you're talking to Compuserve (or similar) and need to ``set parity even'', or maybe your modem is doing software flow control (and ppp isn't). If you got as far as running ppp (and saw hdlc errors), this indicates that it's a flow control thing. Make sure you switch your modem to hardware flow control and things should work. Also, check for your ISP sending a non-zero ACCMAP (enable LCP logging). If they are, make sure that you've got a recent enough version of ppp to reciprocate (with a similar ACCMAP). If you haven't, you must set the accmap manually in ppp.conf. > The reason for my asking about kermit is that I want to verify that my modem > is working correctly. I don't believe that that is a problem with ppp, in fact > I have been getting very useful results from viewing the log file > /var/log/ppp.log I believe that my problem is either with an inappropriate > TERM definition or with the modem setup, and that I am ignorant of how to > approach the problem. A recent result in attempting to connect to my isp > through (telnet(ppp)) is that I recorded many hdlc errors along with partial > transmission of an initial menu from that remote ( not the login but rather > communication subsequent to the login). I am more inclined to question my > modem because I have had the same result with netscape. Thank you for your > input. > > Brian Somers wrote: > > > > It was suggested to me that I may be able to use kermit to resolve some > > > problems that I have establishing a serial line connection to my isp. > > > 1.) what functions would be partially replaced, and/or fully replaced by > > > kermit ? > > > > None. Kermit can be used to prove that the problem is with the > > serial port rather than with ppp. If kermit works, ppp should, if > > kermit doesn't, ppp won't. People find that easier to accept than > > believing that ppp is not to blame for dodgy or misconfigured > > hardware. > > > > > 2.) which version of kermit would be the logical choice to use with > > > 2.2.8 ,or with 3.1? > > > > The one in the ports collection. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message