[ale] need working dial up

[Mark Wright]

I have put a little more time in on the problem tonight.  I created 
/var/log/ppp and put local2 and daemon in /etc/sysllog.conf and pointed 
them both to /var/log/ppp.  Now I can do tail -f /vat/log/ppp in a 
terminal window and watch the communication log live.

Thats all exciting but I haven't really learned anything new except 
what I found in an excellent write up by W.G. Unruh.  He clarified some 
of the messages I am seeing.

The "connect: ppp0  <  - -  >  /dev/ttyS0" message means I have a ppp 
connection between the local and remote ppp hosts/client.  The next 
line I get is "sent   [ LCP  ConfReq  xx=xxxxx]".   This means my PC is 
trying to make the ISP send authentication to me!   And I can't make it 
quit.  An ISP is not going to answer any request like this.  I have 
monkeyed with /etc/ppp/options where all this is kept and I have 
changed the LCP request that is going out to nearly nothing but I can't 
get it to go away.  The ISP is never going to answer any "LCP ConfReq" 
so changing it is nice but I need to kill it.  I have to get past this 
so I can keep the connection up.  Am I way off the path here?  This 
shouldn't be so hard.

Mark



On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Mark Wright wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 2004, at 4:47 PM, William Bagwell wrote:
>>>
>>> Are you using the correct user name and password for her ISP? Looks 
>>> like you
>>> are conecting then getting kicked off.
>>> -- 
>> I know that ppp uses the prompt "ogin" and "assword" because of the 
>> possibility of caps or not for the prompt.  I tried to get some 
>> information out of Earhtlink about their authentication but when I 
>> finally told them the OS was Llinux that was the end of the 
>> conversation.  That is what I think is happening not sure what piece 
>> is missing.  I do get connected and PPP on my machine tries to talk 
>> to PPP on the server but the server never talks back and then the 
>> timeout.
>
> You can turn on logging in kppp and debug in ppp and you will see what 
> they are passing to you.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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