network configuration problem

[Kerry Hoath]

Ok well for a start make sure chat -v is active and watch the messages file.
If it is saying "serial connection established" that may be the case as far
as chat is concerned but in fact your isp might not agree.
Most isps these days just require you to get to a connect prompt so the
last line of my chat script is
CONNECT \d\c
expect connect wait 1 second and go off  into ppp land.
The isp then validates you with pap only no need to chat with the login and
passsword bits of the isp, this is what most win9x boxes do unless they have
a special dialing script.

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 07:17:16PM +0000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> Kirk W. and Kerry -
> 
> Thanks for those suggestions. I am closer, with some additional information.
> It turns out that it was an illusion that I had a satisfactory connection.
> This new system uses an external modem on ttyS1 (com2) and it dials my ISP
> okay, the chat script completes okay, and then it starts PAP authentication
> but never brings the link up. Using "debug" in the ppp/options I get  series
> of messages like this:
> 
> sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x######> <pcomp>
> 
> The seven #s are hex digits, the same for each attempt to connect, but
> different from one attempt to the next. Finally one last message that says:
> 
> LCP: timeout sending config requests
> 
> and then I am disconnected. The "pap-secrets" file is okay, and pap
> authentication works on other Linux systems and DOS systems with that ISP.
> What in hell is this all about?  I am not sure where to begin to look,
> except I think I will fire up minicom and see what the ISP's screen looks
> like directly.
> 
> Kerry - sorry this is an indirect reply to your message, but my addressbook
> is very skimpy and your message disappeared before I could reply to it.
> 
> Chuck.
> 
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