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Re: Dial-up PPP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Wed Nov 4 14:34:25 1998

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:44:01 -0500 (EST)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: John Pierce <whiplash@neosoft.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <363F8DFE.5A6212D4@neosoft.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

ya, I call the ISP and it only holds the connection for about 10 seconds 
at which time it reads the HD vigorously just before going <CLICK>  Is 
there even a place to specify a dynamic IP address?  I can't even see 
what's going on like i could when I used to use trumpet winsock.


On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, John Pierce wrote:

> Yep, I'm using the control panel to get things configured.  I have all the DNS
> info and domain info already there.  It seems that the box just doesn't know
> how to handshake and login.  I even have my username in there too.  It's like
> the ISP is waiting to hear some reply from my Linux box before it'll let me
> login and my Linux box isn't supplying the info.  I'm wondering if I might need
> to edit something in etc/ppp or some such thing......
> 
> /jwp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> UNIXMAN wrote:
> 
> > you know, I have exactly the same problem, I was told that I probably
> > needed to put in the right information where it needs to know what it'll
> > receive and what to send when loging on.  Are you using the network setup
> > from the control-panel?
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 


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