[ale] PPP Problems

[Dave Brooks]

Do yourself a huge favor and look into wvdial.
http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial
Makes PPP easy.  I'd venture to say its the easiest thing since *BSD's
UserPPP.

-Dave




Michael B Golden wrote:
> 
>         Okay, I had setup PPP on Slackware with the pppsetup and find the
> netconf tool does not create scripts, and thus doesn't suit my purpose.
> Therefore I have a few problems. I copied the scripts over to RedHat and
> tried to use them. It actually starts dialing when I tell it to instead
> of a 3 minute delay, but it doesn't work. It gets in but has a problem I
> cannot interpret. Today it did something else, which I feel is a problem
> on the server end and should change, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Here is the first error I got:
> Jun  3 18:11:03 localhost pppd[402]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua3
> Jun  3 18:11:10 localhost pppd[402]: Unsupported protocol (0x8029)
> received
> Jun  3 18:11:11 localhost pppd[402]: Received bad configure-nak/rej:  02
> 06 00 2d 0f 00 03 06 d1 c3 2c d5
> Jun  3 18:11:14 localhost pppd[402]: local  IP address 209.195.44.213
> Jun  3 18:11:14 localhost pppd[402]: remote IP address 209.195.44.215
> 
> The errors I got today is:
> Jun 19 12:57:01 darkstar pppd[356]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua3
> Jun 19 12:57:31 darkstar pppd[356]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> 
> And it just hangs there.
> 
> Does anyone know what these mean, and how I can fix them?
> Also, if anyone could tell me the basics of writing my own ppp-on and
> ppp-off scripts, I would appreciate it and the ones Slackware set up are
> bloated. I'm not sure if it is PAP, CHAP, or MS-CHAP. I just tried each
> in pppsetup in Slackware and one of them worked, but I'm not sure which.
> It is connecting through a Macintosh computer, but I'm not sure if that
> helps or not.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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