Hi all and thanks to Dimitri and Bruce Perens who showed me the way ..
> >> Apr 1 21:05:52 zanzy pppd[351]: Serial line is looped back. > ... > >What does this mean?(*) What can I do to prevent it? > > Usually happens when > a) you forgot to send "ppp" command to your ISP (ie. common > login sequence is to to send username, password and then "type of > service -- ppp, slip, whatever) This is not the case, since, as I said, the same script with same hw works fine .. but it's Slackware, and I want to get rid of it and move completely to debian. > b) ppp takes long time to start on your ISP's box. This is probably the cause, but still I don't see why .. except Slack pppd being slower than debian pppd .. so not catching up with my ISP. Reading Debian doc about pppd (/usr/doc/pppd/README) suggest me to put a chat <chat script> && sleep 5 in my script and this fixed it. But .. it doesn't start ip-up properly, since ip-up does the following: #!/bin/sh # # $Id: ip-up,v 1.1 1996/01/31 21:25:59 alvar Exp $ # # This script is run by the pppd after the link is established. # It should be used to add routes, set IP address, run the mailq # etc. # # This script is called with the following arguments: # Arg Name Example # $1 Interface name ppp0 # $2 The tty ttyS1 # $3 The link speed 38400 # $4 Local IP number 12.34.56.78 # $5 Peer IP number 12.34.56.99 # # The environment is cleared before executing this script # so the path must be reset # PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH # ADDED # MK @ PC 96/01/25 # say we're on-line echo "running on $1 to $5 as $4 @ $3" > /dev/console EXECDIR=/etc/ppp # routing route del default route add default dev ppp0 # send mail echo 'doing putmail' > /dev/console $EXECDIR/putmail # get mail echo 'doing getmail' > /dev/console $EXECDIR/getmail echo "ip-up done!" > /dev/console # last line and I get messages from the echo lines, but I don't get any mail popped or sent. Strange is, if I run ip-up by hand, it behaves properly. Also, in debian pppd I have to set default route by hand, since pppd informs me that he refuses to substitute my default route (usually to eth0) to ppp0 I'm using defaultroute in options file, but this doesn't help. I'm not complaining, when I compare slackware to debian. In all machine I have installed (up to now, more than 10) debian behaves generally better than Slack, so I'm happily moving all machine to debian. I just want to know what I'm doing wrong here, since probably it's my fault. Thanks to all the folks who made and still make debian so good! Any help is welcome Thanks in advance > b) use "TIMEOUT" chat commands, "passive" or "silent" pppd options. I'll try them -- || || ||||||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, Italy Microsoft is the question ||| ||| |||'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No" is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free!