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starting ppp on host end




jens wrote,
> Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:


> > huh?  This is an 8 bit clean connection.  so how to i test it myself to
> > have something to show the telecommunications folks?  Or could my modem
> > be sending 7 bits?  It's a compaq pcmia modem in an ibm thinkpad.

> > any help would be appreciated.

> Most likely the problem is simply that ppp hasn't started--the shell
> is probably just
> echoing back the LCP config requests. Try going through the chat 
>procedure by hand and see if you get PPP packets after you 
>ultimately login to the Linux box. 

oh :)  I thought that the script started it at the other end :)

OK, for the really dumb question:  how do I start ppp on the other end on a 
debian box?  it seems to be with pppd to start the daemon, but I'm having
trouble figuring out the man & doc pages.  I've figured out to insert
the ppp & shlc modules on the host, but I'm not clear on what else to do. 
When I type pppd when logged in manually, I just get a bunch of nonsense 
characters.

rick


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