On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, SamMaEl wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> 	Unfortunately I've lost my modem manuals and can't remember any of
> the AT commands besides the standard ones like at&f1, atz, ath,
> atdt,ats0=n, etc. And, I've searched the global village web site for an
> online manual or something... no luck 8-( What are the standard AT strings
> to set and then save settings to a modem? Right now the modem is
> defaulting to m1s0=1 I think (it waits for a call by ddefault and the
> soundd is on. I don't know what else it's doing, so that might be part of
> the problem.

I'll see what I can scrounge up this weekend.

> > Wait. If the client can ping hosts, ppp is up quite well. Are you
> > telnetting by IP address or name? Try IP address. If that doesn't work
> > when pinging does, your telnet client is broken.
> > 
> 
> 	I've tried both names and IP's. Actually, I fire up MacTCP WAtcher
> and it recognizes itselff as ppp0.woo.org, which is the name I have set
> for the IP I allocate it in my named configs. So, it's getting domain and
> ICMP, but no TCP or UDP. It can traceroute too... but when I do a TCP ping
> or UDP ping in MacTCP WAtcher it fails, and telnets to the ppp server fail
> as well.

Do you have a hosts file on MacOS? All the name lookup systems I'm
familiar with use TCP. ??

> 	Netstat shows that the client has an entry... though I haven't
> tried pinging it from any of the other machines. And, I think the telnet
> client works because I'm using it right now ;-) I've got the laptop in my
> room hooked up to the ethernet atm and everything works just fine. And, I
> AM changing my TCP configs over to a PPP setting when I am trying this.
> I'm prety sure that my Mac-side configuration is fine...

Hmmm.

> > How is pppd getting fired up on the host computer?
> 
> 	I have a subdirectory of /etc/ppp called dialup-ppp with an
> options file and a ppp server startup script. You've seen the options in
> the options file, here is the startup script:
> 
> #
> # This will setup pppd and ready it for our dialup
> #
> 
> /usr/sbin/pppd file /etc/ppp/dialup-ppp/options 192.168.1.1:192.168.2.1
> /dev/tty00 57600
> 
> 	The above is on the same line though. I've tried giving the client
> an IP on the 192.168.1 network, like 192.168.1.5, but I get the same
> result, that a ping works and a telnet, etc. does not.

Wait. You have both pppd AND getty running at the same time?

> 	Should I try setting a different speed? Or, am I missing an option
> or something?

What do ifconfig -a and netstat -rn say once all is up?

Take care,

Bill