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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 1996 00:41:41 GMT
From:      James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com>
To:        grag@fssr.ru
Cc:        dan0@habanero.clark.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPP on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <199604270041.AAA03707@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <3180C889.167EB0E7@fssr.ru> (message from Grag on Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:58:49 %2B0000)

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> > I am having considerable difficulty getting kernel PPP to work with
> > FreeBSD; I am trying to connect with my provider, ClarkNet 
> > in Maryland,
> > and am getting the following activity in /var/log/messages when running
> > with both debug and kdebug:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Apr 21 13:55:35 habanero pppd[229]: pppd 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0
> > Apr 21 13:55:45 habanero login: login on ttyv1 as dan0
> > Apr 21 13:56:00 habanero pppd[230]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cuaa1
> > Apr 21 13:56:00 habanero /kernel: ppp0 output:
> > ff03c02101010012010405dc050631794
> > c4507020802
> > Apr 21 13:56:02 habanero /kernel: ppp0: garbage received: 0xd (need
> > 0xFF)
> [skipped]
> > Apr 21 13:56:30 habanero pppd[230]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> > Apr 21 13:56:30 habanero pppd[230]: Connection terminated.
> > Apr 21 13:56:30 habanero pppd[230]: Serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> > Apr 21 13:56:30 habanero pppd[230]: All received characters had bit 7
> > set to 0
> 
> We had similar diagnostics when were trying to setup ppp session between FreeBSD 2.1's
> PPPD and Solaris 2.4's ASPPPD. 
> I have no technical details but the problem was solved when we turn off magic number
> negotionion (-mn in .ppprc for FreeBSD) and turn off masking control symbols (asyncmap 0
> for both FreeBSD and Solaris). 
> The ppp session starts but isn't stable.

I had the same problem when trying to dial my ISP using pppd (which I
had been using successfully for several months with a different ISP).
Everything works flawlessly with user-mode PPP (/usr/sbin/ppp) so you
may wish to consider using that instead.

Cheers
James

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
mail:	jraynard@dial.pipex.com



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