Re: ppp mystery

[Gl Elad <gilelad@netvision.net.il>]

Sorry for not making myself clear.
Yes there is a connection, and I get a message from the remote machine. The 
problem is that the "message"
usually looks like garbage. Neither program knows how to respond exactly, 
so they time out and hang up (at least that's what it looks like to me). 
wvdial gives me the "starting ppp and hoping for the best" message, which, 
if I read correctly, is part of it's default behavior in strange situations.
One weird thing is that the "garbage" is different at each connection speed.
What I expect to get from the remote machine after the connection is 
established is a message like
"Welcome to Netvision. Please enter your login" or some such, like I get 
when I dial from Windows' HyperTerm. What I get instead is a series of 
random characters.
Thanks again for your patience and information.

Gil Elad

At 06:24 PM 3/15/01 +0000, you wrote:
> Quoting Gil Elad (gilelad@netvision.net.il):
>
> > 1. I tried connecting using Minicom at different speeds ranging from 19 to
> > 38 kbps without success.
>
> "Without success" doesn't mean anything in this context.
> I'm not necessarily expecting you to make a connection.
>
> Your modem ought to work at 115200 bps - that's the speed between
> the PC and the modem, and is nothing to do with the eventual
> speed of the connection (49k in windows).
>
> So, what happened when you dialled the number. I take it you got
> that far? Does the other end answer? Without your telling us these
> things, we can't help you at all.
>
> > One thing I did notice when reading the pppconfig man page is that support
> > for mschap is not yet available, at least not in the version I'm using,
> > which is the one that came on the distribution CDs. I don't know how
> > relevant that information is, since everywhere I look in Windows seems to
> > indicate that it authenticates itself using PAP, but for some reason I 
> have
> > an inherent mistrust in M$. I guess I'm just funny that way :)
>
> That's still irrelevant. You will find out about authentication when
> you are successfully swapping LCP with the other end. Your logs showed
> only one-way traffic and nothing from the other end.
>
> Cheers,
>
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