"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> writes:
> Whenever I've seen "Serial link is not 8-bit clean", it's been because the
> provider wasn't set up to do PAP, but was expecting a plaintext login.  
> 
> You can test this with cu(1): dial up manually, and log in.  If you get a
> bunch of gibberish at that point, that's PPP being initiated by the remote
> host.  

That isn't necessarily so. That is to say, I know of remotes that will
do prompted logins and ALSO normal PPP handshakes, so dialing in by
hand doesn't tell you anything.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com