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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 16:04:56 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@apc.net>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fed up with PPP 
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980417160456.0094a300@mail.apc.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804172244.XAA15433@awfulhak.org>
References:  <Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:34 PDT."             <3.0.5.32.19980417145834.0097b7b0@mail.apc.net>

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At 11:44 PM 4/17/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> Ok I got it to work (finally :-) The problem was the fact that tun0 wasn't
>> compiled into the kernel(wired error message?)
>> 
>> Now, it's dialing in, and it says
>> 
>> Dial OK!
>> login OK!
>> 
>> I also get the following message when I start PPP:
>> 	...
>> 	Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0: errno: Network is unreachable
>> 	...
>> along with everything else
>
>Read the section on the ``add'' command in the man page.
>
>> However, I can't pnig a remote host.  Below is part of my ppp.conf file:
>> 
>> apc:
>>  set phone 9300502
>> # set login "TIMEOUT 5 login::dima password::***"
>>  set timeout 120
>>  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0
>>  delete ALL
>>  add 0 0 HISADDR
>>  dial
>> 
>> 
>> If I uncomment the "set login..." line, it will have a message in the
>> ppp.log file that says that it expect "28000/AQ?^M" and didn't get it.  See
>> below for the whole log file.
>
>So, you want to wait for the other side to say "login::dima", and 
>when they send that, you send "password::***".  I suspect this is not 
>what you mean.

That is what I mean.

>
>> Since the ppp.conf and ppp.log files are huge (at least mine are), I've
>> decided to put them up on the web rather than have everyone download
them. :-)
>
>They shouldn't be huge.  It would be best to just include the 
>ppp.conf sections that are relevant - delete everything else, it's 
>just confusing.
>
>You really need to interpret the logs yourself.  From the looks of 
>the above dial string, you haven't got a chance of logging in.  The 
>man page suggests using ``term'' to connect the first time.  After 
>you've established what you need to do, set up your login script and 
>enable ``chat'' logging so that you can see if it's doing what you 
>expect.

I tried 'term', but I don't know how to start ip :-(.   I don't know how to
enabled chat logging either :-(

>
>> They can be found at:
>> http://www.apc.net/dima/fbsd/ppp.conf
>> http://www.apc.net/dima/fbsd/ppp.log
>[.....]
>
>You're making it too difficult for people to help....  you need to 
>present the relevant facts (as far as you can tell) and see if people 
>say "we need this piece of info".
>
>> ---
>> Dima Dorfman (dima@apc.net)
>[.....]
>
>-- 
>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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Dima Dorfman (dima@apc.net)

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