Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:04:48 -0400 From: "Ian Molee" <molee@mindspring.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: chat script failure in user-level PPP Message-ID: <000001bed7e5$2b0568d0$1d5556d1@emulsive>
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I am having quite a time attempting to get my PPP connection to work properly under FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE. The problem is that I cannot for the life of me get my chat script to succeed. Each and every time I attempt to connect using a "dial" command, I get the message "Warning: chat script failed" as soon as the TIMEOUT value has expired. I can connect manually, by entering the "term" command and manually entering the appropriate AT commands, then logging in, so I know that the problem is not with my hardware settings, interface settings, or miscellaneous ppp settings (e.g., "set device /dev/cuaa0"). The following is the ppp.conf file I'd like to use: ---ppp.conf--- default: set device /dev/cuaa0 set speed 115200 set dial "ECHO ON ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATZ OK-AT-OK ATM1 OK-AT-OK ATS11=35 OK-AT-OK \\p\\pATDT*70\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" mindspring: set phone "404 287 3038|404 654 1300|404 654 1350" set login "TIMEOUT 10 '' '' gin:--gin: <username> word: <password>" set timeout 300 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 add default HISADDR ---eof--- Naturally, I am using my actual username and password in the proper locations above, instead of the placeholders. I have tried altering the dial script and the "set phone" into simpler expressions to reduce the chances of the chat script failing to no avail. For example, I changed the "set phone" line to include only a single phone number, and eliminated spaces from the phone number, thinking that this may be confusing chat. I even tried setting dial scripts as simple as "TIMEOUT 5 '' ATZ OK-AT-OK" and "TIMEOUT 5 '' ''", and _even these_ failed. >:( I do not know if it's noteworthy that running chat manually from the command line fails with an exit code of 3, indicating that a timeout event has occurred. I am a bit upset with myself that I can't figure out something that ought to be relatively simple, but my setup seems to be in accordance with the sources of documentation to which I've referred (FreeBSD Handbook, PPP man page, and _The Complete FreeBSD_). After all, I've gotten this type of functionality to work on other platforms in the past. However, I'm afraid I'm at my wit's end, and think that surely there must be someone who's dealt with this problem, or at least has a good idea of what it might be. I shall appreciate greatly any guidance that any good Samaritan can provide. Additionally, if anyone knows of any good "gotchas" regarding getting a Windows NT machine to happily talk via the FreeBSD box as a gateway of sorts, then I'd be interested in hearing about these: preliminary testing last night after manually establishing the connection and issuing an "alias enable yes" do not look promising. :( Thanks very much, Ian Molee PS: Please ensure that any replies are routed to my specific e-mail, in addition to the freebsd-questions group: I've recently unsubscribed to this list because I simply could not deal with the volume. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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