Re: PPP dies

[Chris Beggy <chrisb@eden.com>]

rsuchowi@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu wrote:
> 
> This weekend I managed to get mgetty+sendfax set up for
> a dial in connection to my office.  Mgetty answers
> fine, I am able to log in and go about my business just
> like a telnet session.  The problem is that I can not
> get ppp to launch properly.  After I get into the box,
> I issue ppp (from minicom) and the session should
> launch, which it does.  My problem is that after 10
> attempts (which is one of the defaults for ppp to
> attempt to make a connection) ppp dies, and drops me
> off the line.  I know that I am missing something, but
> for the life of me I have been reading docs since
> friday and still can't figure out what is going on.
> Anyone have any ideas...  Note that when dialing out
> from this same box, I can dial up an isp (using
> minicom) get into the box then issue ppp which starts
> up a dial out session fine (if that means anything)

Could you show us your ppp invocation line and /etc/ppp/options
file?

This would give us more to go on.

Chris

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