Re: PPPproblem

[Pete Harlan <harlan@mymenus.com>]

> > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0.  What does this

> This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other
> modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out

Just to underscore a common case: if your username and/or password
aren't right, you get the message about the line not being 8-bit
clean.  I'd wish at least that the ppp docs would make this clear; one
can spend a long time messing with tty settings when all that's wrong
is a bad password.

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Pete Harlan
pete@mymenus.com