Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O
Hello, dear List'ers...
Can anyone give me a hint about some *weird* dialup behaviour?
Factually, I'm using an old 486 with an updated slink as dial-up server for a small LAN, and this machine dials to (different) providers through a simple modem line... After experiencing some problems with establishing connections in the last days, I tracked the logfiles and found something like this for a failed ppp session:
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Oct 13 12:53:56 straylight pppd[1100]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (BUSY)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (VOICE)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: abort on (NO ANSWER)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: send (ATZ^M)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: expect (OK)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: ATZ^M^M
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: OK
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: -- got it
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: send (ATDT019161^M)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: expect (CONNECT)
Oct 13 12:53:58 straylight chat[1102]: ^M
Oct 13 12:54:18 straylight chat[1102]: ATDT019161^MT 115200^M
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oct 13 12:54:19 straylight chat[1102]: mediaWays access-node srv43.cmn2.mediaWays.net saturn.bbn.com usr\n^M
Oct 13 12:54:43 straylight chat[1102]: alarm
Oct 13 12:54:43 straylight chat[1102]: Failed
Oct 13 12:54:43 straylight pppd[1100]: Connect script failed
Oct 13 12:54:44 straylight pppd[1100]: Exit.
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The dialup-scripts were created with standard slink pppconfig-tool and are giving the same error for several providers just *sometimes*, meaning that there are days we are able to dial up ten, twenty, thirty times without those problems, in other days we're experiencing the same error for several dozens of times until we finally established a working connection, Actually, since this didn't change even after some modifications of the /etc/chatscripts files, I am out of ideas to fix this... Can anyone help me with this? Especially this line in the logfile that I marked in the cut-out is ***very*** suspicious to me, mainly because in the chatscripts I couldn't find any command telling chat to there send the dialup command again... :///
Any help or hints would be appreciated, thanks very much in advance...
Kind regards,
Kristian
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