Re: PPP Bugs?

["PUNKY ME" <punkyme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I also had problems with ppp in rh5.1.
I spent close to two weeks and still could not get it working.
one big problem it seemed to have (at least with my isp netlink) was 
timing out ....if i remember correctly it does not indicate this with a 
timeout message but a invalid login message.... so i set up alot of 
"expect" statments with empty "sends", there are other ways of doing 
this but i think this is a simple way and it lets you see how far along 
you are getting in the login process
this kept mine from timing out to soon, so it could establish a serial 
connection then it would run appletalk and a couple other things 
and...after a while it would time out this time it would indicate 
timeout sending lcp packets ....i guess my isp sends lcp packets a 
little slow so i increased the max lcp to 70 and then 700 and it would 
sit and send and recieve but i didn't have a complete connection i could 
not even ping the dns servers on netlink.
I think the problem may be in the dynamic allocating of ip address which 
there are ways to capture and set the ip address when loging in but i 
have read very little on this and am not sure how it is done....I also 
hope it is rh5.1 and not my lack of understanding.
there are other things involved but most of these are disscussed in many 
help texts. there are quite a few on the redhat cd .

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>Does anyone know if diald works works with Redhat 5.1 (BS-Ware),  or 
even
>if the control-panel cirrectly sets up a ppp interface.  I created the 
ppp
>interface with control-panel and it dials and fails with an "invalid 
login"
>eventhough I know it is the correct user/passwd (I tried in manually).  
I
>can see the invalid login from the ISP in /var/log/messages.  I am 
completely
>baffled.  Just wondering if anyone knew of any bugs, or if it something 
I
>have done/failed to do?
>
>P.S.  For some reason an upgrade using BS-Ware thrashed (I mean bad) my 
machine
>to the point where any attempt to remove an RPM (It said I had portmap 
>installed three time) resulted in a segmenation fault.  I got a lot
>of "Failure in script execution" at the end of package installs during 
the
>upgrade.  There was disk space, etc... Didn't manage to narrow down the 
cause.
>Ended up doing a install and wiping out the system paritions (but 
everthing
>juicy was in /home & /usr/local anyway.
>
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