From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 6 05:50:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA18200 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 05:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cre8tivegroup.com (abt6.bitwise.net [204.97.222.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA18146 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 05:49:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.255.227.63] by mail.cre8tivegroup.com (SMTPD32-3.03) id A82779C40178; Fri, 06 Jun 1997 08:52:55 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3397C412.AB9A87F9@concentric.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 08:36:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella To: Joshua Fielden Subject: RE: PPP problems. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 06-Jun-97 Joshua Fielden wrote: >Well, I almost got my PPP to work... :-/ I can get -auto to work fine, >dial, and even connect.... but then nothing happens. My ppp.log shows >the last two line of any connection as > > >LCP: state change Initial --> closed >LCP: state change Closed --> stopped > > > If I set openmode active, I get a chunk of what boils down to requests >being sent from my machine, then it finally gives up. I have searched >the archives for this problem, and see it has shown up before, but there >never seems to be a resolution to any of the threads in the archives. >They all seem to end up saying "talk to your ISP" but my ISP will not >deal with anyone running any sort of U*ix system. Anyone got any ideas? >I can use PPP fine in 95/NT/Dos, BTW, and under BSD, I can cu to my >shell and telnet/PPP from there, so the hardware is fine and works. BTW, >I am running 2.1.5-Release. >-- >SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical >reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to >sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. > --Joshua Fielden