Subject: Re: PPP garbage data?
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Florian_St=F6hr?= <florian.stoehr@login-solutions.de>
From: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/11/2002 06:02:04
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 @ 11:11am (+0200), Florian Stöhr wrote:

FS> hi,
FS>
FS> connection manually with cu:
FS>
FS> ATZ
FS> OK
FS> ATDT12345
FS> ...
FS>
FS> after receiving
FS>
FS> CONNECT 48000...
FS>
FS> some seconds just nothing happens. then I receive some garbage data from
FS> the ISP (seems binary), then the modem disconnects.
FS>
FS> what's wrong? is this a kind of compression I have to setup? how to
FS> receive login/password prompt?

really it helps to know what type of dial-in gear your ISP uses.

... _most_ RAS gear, if it doesn't detect a PPP or SLIP session at connect
time, will give you a text based login prompt.

have you ever cu'd in and dialed your ISP before?

-lava

FS>
FS> when connecting with pppd/chat-script i don't see the modem output, but it
FS> seems like the same would happen since it disconnects too after some
FS> seconds.
FS>
FS> Flo
FS>

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