[4195] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat 4.0, diald, and PPP 2.2.0f
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shane P. McCarron)
Wed Nov 13 09:05:13 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:03:05 -0600
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From: "Shane P. McCarron" <ahby@themacs.com>
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At 01:03 AM 11/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Craig Maloney sez:
>>
>> I recently upgraded a working diald and PPP 2.2.0f from RedHat 3.0.3 to
>> RedHat 4.0. Much to my chagrin, though, it no longer works. It dials out
>> and makes the connection, but no traffic passes through. I tried
>> telnetting to my host using the numeric address, but nothing happened.
>> After about 1 minute my connection closes up, and diald restarts the
>> call. I've also tried this without diald (just running the script) and
>> get the same results. The stickler is this all worked before
>> (flawlessly?) and now it no longer works.
>
>Don't know if this will help (esp. if you're using chap or pap)
>
>I found that I was getting "serial line looped back" errors, etc. and
>the PPP link was never coming up -- I changed the password in my chat
>script from something like "password" to "password\n\d\d\d\d\d\c"
>(which adds a 5 second delay after sending the password), and those
>problems have been solved.
>
>I also have diald set to a debug level of 20 and the debug flag set for
>pppd/chat, so I can watch the connection process in the log files. (I
>send the syslog to a spare virtual console so I can watch it in real-time.)
Another possible problem is that RedHat 3.0.3 used old-style PPP in the
kernel. You have to explicitly tell diald what type of PPP you are using at
build time. I had this same problem when upgrading from 2.0 to 3.03.
--
Shane P. McCarron +1 612 434-4431
Testing Research Manager ahby@themacs.com
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