Re: problems with ppp

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>]

 Any updates on this? I have played around a bit ...

Stanislaw Szczygiel writes:
> Hello!
> I've installed 1.4.1 few days ago, and I've noticed some strange problem:
>  I cant dial by modem to internet.  First I used old (and working) files
> (chat, peers, options) ,later - these described i docs, and all the time
> I have the same effect:
> modem dial number, connecting, on the screen I see informations:
> serial connection established
> using interface ppp0
> connect ppp0 <--> /dev/tty00
> and immidiently message :
> modem hangup  (and modem really hangups)
> connection terminated

 Funny, I have exactly the same problem on my 3000 - but under Linux!
 Ok, off topic :)

Stanislaw Szczygiel writes:
> Hello Ignatios,
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000,  said about 'Re: problems with ppp':
> >  On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:42:02AM -0500, Stanislaw Szczygiel wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  >  I cant dial by modem to internet.  First I used old (and working) files
> >  > (chat, peers, options) ,later - these described i docs, and all the time
> >  > I have the same effect:
> >  
> >  I'm not sure when the ser.c driver was canonicalized... you might want 
> >  to try /dev/dty00 instead. (the "dialout" device)
> there is no dty00 device... and generally tty00 works, modem dial number,
> conecting with other on the secend side, and then... both messages 
> connecting....

 No dty00 here either. What exactly is this supposed to be?

Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> Uhm...
> 
> let me guess: you didn't tell pppd to not require the peer to authenticate
> itself, and it doesn't... If I recall right, some time ago the default was
> changed from "noauth" to "auth". So for an end-user connection, you want
> to add "noauth" to the options.
> 
> If this doesn't help you, add "debug" to the options, add an entry
> for "daemon.debug" to your syslog.conf, restart syslogd, tell ppp to
> dial out and watch the debug output.

 This turns out quite interesting: in my case, pppd doesn't do anything
 at all unless started with the debug option!

 Adding noauth to options helps, but frankly, I don't exactly see the
 connection here.

 Also, I am geeting abysmal transfer speeds, sometimes only about 20 bytes/s
 for ftp. I've even seen my modem switching to low speed mode (HS light off)
 at some stage. Any idea what I should look at? Both ends are 33.6k.

Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
[...] 
> did you start your pppd as root or as some nonpriviledged user?
> what does ls -l /dev/tty00 /dev/ttym00 show?

 ttym0 doesn't work for me either. What is it?