[3073] in linux-net channel archive
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M Bealer)
Fri May 31 04:13:08 1996
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 10:21:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
To: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0uO9hZ-000IvrC@bigred.inka.de>
On Mon, 27 May 1996, Olaf Titz wrote:
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>
> Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu> wrote:
> > The serial line looped back is probably the problem. (If this is doing what
> > mine did when I tried to set up ppp,) the other side is not responding
> > immediately, and is still echoing characters.
>
> Or, you don't get to the pppd on the other side _at all_. Consider a
> PPP server machine which you log in to and either spawn pppd from the
> shell (as in the pppd README) or get at pppd automatically.
> Now, you have the wrong password in your chat script. This will leave
> you at the login prompt, the login program will take the LCP ConfReq
> as a login name, and echo it back...
>
> I've got bitten by this once and took _hours_ to find out the trivial
> cause, just confused by an error message that indicates a problem with
> kernel TTY stuff...
>
> Perhaps that's one of the most common errors with PPP.
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Perhaps it would be a good idea if pppd would "mail" root with a failed
connect script if "debug" was turned on... I should suggest this to whoever
writes the pppd stuff.
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