On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:15:26AM -0500, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> I'm switching ISPs, and I'm having some trouble getting my existing peer
> file working with the new peer. First off, with the old one, I had a
> static IP address, so I had the myaddr:youraddr line in the peer file.
> With this ISP, I'm getting a dynamic one. That may be the whole of the
> problem. I'm trying to use demand/persist dialing. I understand that
> I'll need to include ":youraddr" in the peer file - but my question is,
> how do I find out what that address should be?

Ask the ISP. At the very last you can do sewveral tests in manual dialin
and see if the remote address is always the same ...

> Also, I tried dialing it
> without demand/persist, and after user/password validation, it starts
> the ppp session, then after about 20 seconds, I get disconnected with
> "IPCP Timeout" errors, no response or something like that. (ever so
> helpful, aren't I?). I'll try to email more details tonight when I'm at
> home.

Looks like the remote isn't anserwing IPCP messages, or gives wrong anserws.
Enable debugs and look at what the remote end says.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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