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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 14:44:22 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Keith Spencer <bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PPP...won't dial out! Driving me nuts
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On Sun, Sep 21, 1997 at 09:28:25PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Keith Spencer wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have set what PPP&SLIP chap 13 in docs said to do (I believe)
>> But I have set my ppp.conf as per below. (thanks  Greg Lahey)
>> But hey...not a blip out of the modem (I now it works OK)
>> Maybe I have the setups trying com1 instead of com2?
>> I have done the PPP & SLIP setups according to ch13 as user ppp
>>
>> I notice that ifconfig -a
>> reports...=flags8010<POINTTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtn 1500
>> shouldn't it say RUNNING
>
> No.  Mine doesn't.
>
>> here is ppp.conf
>> default:
>>  set device /dev/cuaa1
>>  set speed 57600
>
> Are these correct for your modem?
>
> What happens if you type `term' to drop to terminal mode then try to dial
> manually (atdt 727424)?
>
>>  set authname xxxxx
>>  set authkey  yyyyyyy
>
> Hope what was there was blanked out, or else you'd better change your
> password. (I blanked it case.)

The real problem was that I gave him a corrupted dial string.  He
repeated it in one of his messages, and nobody noticed :-(
It's working now after fixing the dial string.

Greg