[techtalk] pppd problems, redhat 6.0

[Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun]

On Nov 6, Laurel Fan conjectured:

> Are you sure your chat script is correct?  The default one doesn't
> always work; for example, my dialup server uses "annex username:"
> instead of "login:".

Yeah, we fixed that after you pointed it out.  But....
 
> You can try it out by connecting directly with a terminal program (such
> as minicom) and typing in each step of the chat script manually.  If you
> don't know how chat works, read the manpage.

Minicom doesn't seem to talk the same ppp that the annex server wants.

So anyway, we tried again, commenting out a line that didn't make sense
according to the chat man page.  This is what happened:
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost chat[2250]: timeout set to 5 seconds
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost chat[2250]: abort on (\nBUSY\r)
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost chat[2250]: abort on (\nNO ANSWER\r)
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost chat[2250]: abort on
(\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r)
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost chat[2250]: send (rAT^M)
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost pppd[2249]: Serial connection established.
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost pppd[2249]: Using interface ppp0
Nov  6 18:53:12 localhost pppd[2249]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Nov  6 18:53:16 localhost pppd[2249]: Serial line is looped back.
Nov  6 18:53:16 localhost pppd[2249]: Connection terminated.
Nov  6 18:53:16 localhost pppd[2249]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
Nov  6 18:53:17 localhost pppd[2249]: Exit.

My CS major guy wants to try a couple more things.  He wants to make it
look like the kppp dialer script.  (Kppp isn't installed, but the dialer
works, somehow...)

I'm going to have IP masquerading/ ipchains questions soon...  I can't
quite make sense of the HOWTO's...

Conni

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