Re: pppd question

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 02:20:12PM -0000, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote:
> 
> I had a working dial-up ppp link with an ISP provider.
> Recently, I am failing to setup the connection.
> I am not able to figure up what the problem is.
> The setup I am using now is just the same as before.
> I have appended a transcript of the logged messages.
> Would you like to take a look to see what could be going wrong.
> 
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: Checking authorization, Please wail ...^M
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: Checking authorization, Please wail ...^M
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: Username: -- got it
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: send (<user name>^M)
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: expect (word:)
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: <user name>^M
> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak chat[536]: send (<password>^M)

i used to have a similar problem.
The script does not wait for "password:" prompt, but sends both username and
password. This theoretically should work, but not necessarily :)

> Aug 12 07:27:24 merak pppd[535]: Serial connection established.
This is misleading. It only means that the chatscript has ended, nothing
more...

hope this helps,
Marcin
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Marcin Owsiany
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