[ale] [Fwd: ppp on mindspring]

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Here is my mindspring dialout setup. I'm using Red Hat 5.2 with a
version of PPP that will bring up the link whenever I have a packet to 
send.  If you don't want this, take out the 'demand' and 'idle 300' options:

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local I have one line:

pppd /dev/modem 115200 asyncmap 00000000 crtscts modem demand idle 300 connect /etc/ppp/mindspring.chat :168.121.1.1 defaultroute 


I made a dialout script in  /etc/ppp/mindspring.chat:

#!/bin/bash
#
DEVICE=modem 
CHAT=/usr/sbin/chat 
PPPD=/usr/sbin/pppd 

PASSWORD="youwantmypasswd?"
USERNAME="foo at mindspring.com"

CONSOLE=`tty`
(
	stty 115200 -tostop
        echo -n "Dialing..." 
        ${CHAT} -t 120  ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY ABORT "ERROR" "" ATS7=45S0=0V1E1Q0M0 OK ATDT4042873038 CONNECT "" "ogin" "$USERNAME" "assword" "$PASSWORD" "PPP" 

)</dev/modem >/dev/modem



No, they don't seem to use chap or pap.

-Eric.

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 > Help
 > I have been trying to get ppp to work for 2 weeks now and have a list of
 > problems.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  The sooner I
 > get PPP working the sooner I can cannabilize my windows box.
 > 1.  When I dial out with minicom it connects to the server but minicom
 > doesn't realize this.  It waits for the timer to run out and then tries
 > to dial out again.  I can hit cancel though and start getting text from
 > the mindspring login.
 > 
 > 2.  When the login appears it is very sloooooow.  It displays a few
 > letters, waits about 5 seconds and then displays a few more letters.
 > Any suggestions?
 > 
 > 3.  When I do finally login I start ppp and it seems that after multiple
 > attempts, LCP timesout.  Any more suggestions on this.
 > 
 > 4.  One last item, is pap or chap used by mindspring.
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