Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:41:49 +1000 From: "Young" <young@richardson.apana.org.au> To: "Christopher Michaels" <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Unable to connect via ppp (was: Modem Issues) Message-ID: <007601bef00b$ceed0960$857e03cb@jdy>
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Thanks Christopher Just back online now .... I'll do this within next half hour and let you know the results -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Young' <young@richardson.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:44 AM Subject: Unable to connect via ppp (was: Modem Issues) >>From the information that you have given so far. It is not a problem with >the modem, it is not a problem with BSD. It is a problem with that fact >that a proper ppp connection is not being made. > >If the ppp connection is not made within a certain amount of time the >connection will be dropped. > >PLEASE, follow these exact instructions, tell us exactly what happens and >what goes wrong if it does not work. > >1. Type "ppp" at the command prompt. >2. At the ppp machine> prompt type "term", dial, and login properly. >3. When you're done logging in type "~p" >4. At this point you should type "show ipcp". Take not of "his address". >5. At some point your prompt should change to say "PPP machine>" if it hangs >up before getting to this point. Please tell us what the prompt said before >it hung up. Is it "ppp, Ppp, PPp, or PPP"? >6. Take the value of his addres in the last step and type "add 0 0 >value_of_his_address". >7. Type ALT-F2 and try pinging different addresses. > >I realize that you have information from the isp as to ip addresses and >such, and people are going back and forth with do this do that. but I think >we need to start from scratch and attack your problems systematically. UNIX >is not so convoluted and un-intuitive that it's going to thwart you at every >turn, just for the hell of it. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Young [SMTP:young@richardson.apana.org.au] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:31 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Modem Issues >> >> Does anyone know of issues with Hayes Optima modems that >> might cause disconnection of user ppp after a few minutes >> >> It seems the system hasn't realized its supposed to notice the >> "set timeout 0" in ppp.conf, so I'm looking for anything else that >> just might be causing this > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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