Re: How to start PPP?

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

At 09:22 PM 9/16/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Kent West writes:
>> I've got a minimal Debian > 2.0 system up and running (base install from
>> the floppies and that's it). I've run pppconfig and told it to create a
>> connection named "bub". I haven't found any documentation that tells me
>> how to use this connection.
>
>'pon bub' .  This is a bug in the pon man page.
>
>> I've figured out that if I just type pon the system tries to use the
>> "provider" connection...
>
>This is the default, if pon is given no argument.  This is pon:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider}
>
>> But if I type pon bub (which is what I would have thought would've used
>> the "bub" connection), all that happens is the system thinks for a couple
>> of seconds and then returns me to a prompt.
>
>Send me copies of /etc/chatscripts/bub, /etc/ppp/peers/bub,
>/etc/ppp/pap-secrets if you are using PAP (munge the passwords) and the
>output of the 'plog' command.
>-- 
>John Hasler
>john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
>Dancing Horse Hill
>Elmwood, WI

Here are the files (I wiped the drive and reinstalled and used the default
of "provider" instead of "bub"; getting same results):

/etc/chatscripts/provider 
-----------------------------------
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT VOICE
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
ABORT "NO ANSWER"
"" ATZ
OK ATDT6871				(it's a valid number; I'm on campus)
CONNECT \d\c

/etc/ppp/peers/provider
---------------------------------
#This file was generated by pppconfig. You can edit blah blah blah
#more blah blah
noauth	#pppconfig_noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"   #pppconfig_connect
debug		#pppconfig_debug
/dev/ttyS1	#pppconfig_dev
115200	#pppconfig_speed
defaultroute	#pppconfig_route
noipdefault	#pppconfig_ipdefault
user westk	#pppconfic_user
#End of pppconfig blah blah blah

/etc/ppp/pap-secrets (just the un-commented lines
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*	molec3	""	*
guest		molec3	"*"	-
master	molec3	"*"	-
root		molec3	"*"	-
support	molec3	"*"	-
stats		molec3	"*"	-
molec3	*	password
westk		* 	<munged password>

output of plog (now this is something new to me; interesting...)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
<date-time>	<comp. name>	chat[144]:	abort on (NO CARRIER)
   "			"	   "		abort on (VOICE)
   "			"	   "		abort on (NO DIALTONE)
   "			"	   "		abort on (NO ANSWER)
   "			"	   "		send (ATZ^M)
   "			"	   "		expect (OK)
   "			"	   "		alarm
   "			"	   "		Failed
   "			"	pppd[143]	Connect script failed
   "			"	pppd[143]	Exit.


Thanks for any help!




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