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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 96 23:15:07 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com>
To:        "FreeBSD questions" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   User ppp not dialing
Message-ID:  <199612260415.XAA27888@revelstone.jvm.com>

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For months I have been trying to get user ppp to work with my provider
Advantis (IBM). I got a ppp.conf and ppp.linkup from another user and
it originally did the following:

>Dial Attempt 1
>Dial OK!
>Login OK!
>Packet mode

All of that without actually dialing at all! The modem never even got
the OH light on.
As per someones suggestions I changed 
"add 0 0 255.255.255.0" to  "set ifaddr 0/0 0/0" 
and now I don't even get as far as before.
Now I am getting a "dial attempt 1" and then fails. It goes on for a
few more attempts and fails.

I have been trying for months with no luck. I am getting desperate. 

I also tried "echo atm1h1> /dev/cuaa0" to see if the modem would
respond and the modem received the command, but the OH light didn't
come up (this was after I tried going into ppp); the modem did receive
the commands though because I saw the lights blink. I know the modem is
ok, because I use with OS/2 and because with previous ppp.conf I could
dial with "term" from ppp. Is it possible one of the lines in the
ppp.conf is setting my modem in a state where it can no longer accept
anything? Any suggestions? I am going to try a minimal ppp.conf and try
term again to see if I can identify what in ppp.conf could be causing
the problem with the modem.

Following are my ppp.conf and ppp.linkup
################################################################
#ppp.linkup
# If we are invoked with an argument 'ibm-auto' then
# delete the existing route entry and add the peer as default
gateway.
ibm-auto:
 delete ALL
 add 0 0 HISADDR
################################################################
#
# Otherwise, simply add peer as default gateway.
MYADDR:
 add 0 0 HISADDR
################################################################

################################################################
#ppp.conf
# Default setup. Executed always when PPP is invoked.
default:
 set device /dev/cuaa0
 set speed 57600 
 disable lqr
 deny lqr
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0M0
OK-AT-OK
\\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
################################################################
#
# For interactive mode (`ppp ibm`), we'll use this configuration:
ibm:
 set phone 6741501
 set redial 3 10
 set authname internet.usinet.reyes01
 set authkey <mumble>
 set timeout 300
 set openmode active
 accept chap
 deny pred1
 disable pred1
set ifaddr 0/0 0/0
################################################################
#
# For auto mode ('ppp -auto ibm-auto'), we'll use this:
ibm-auto:
 set phone 6741501
 set redial 3 10
 set authname internet.usinet.reyes01
 set authkey <mumble>
 set timeout 300
 set openmode active
 accept chap
 deny pred1
 disable pred1
 set ifaddr 127.1.1.1/0 127.2.2.2/0 255.255.255.0
 add 0 0 127.2.2.2
################################################################




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