On Fri, 16 May 1997, Ben White wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks to those of you who responded to my last desperate cry for help.
> I am one step closer in getting my setup working. Currently I use a
> Slackware distribution with kernel 1.2.13, but want to upgrade to Debian
> to avoid the commercial distributions, and because of its sophisticated
> package management. Because of my specific requirements I must have
> demand dialing ppp connectivity (which I have working with 1.2.13
> slackware). Here is my current state of affairs:
>
>
> 0) I am using Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.27 (or close to that
>
> 1) can connect with commandline invocation of pppd
Would this be pon or pppd connect etc?
>
> 2) diald installed, and tries to bring up the link appropriately
>
> 3) chat dials and logs in, pppd is started
>
> 4) from modem lights the remote is sending packets and pppd is
> not responding
What does ifconfig say at this point about ppp0?
>
> 5) after 20 sec diald times out pppd and kills it
>
> 6) the ppp.log file then prints
>
> May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: pppd startup timed out. Check
> your p
> ppd options. Killing pppd.
> May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Terminating on signal 2.
> May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS1:
> Interrupte
> d system call
This tells me that pppd is trying to gain controle of ttyS1 which is
wrong. Even though you said that you only have debug in your ppp.options
file you have told pppd to use this tty on the command line or in the
diald options file.
>From the diald man page:
WARNING: Note that some pppd commands
should not be specified, not even in the
/etc/ppp/options file, because they will interfere
with the proper operation of diald. In particular
you should not specify the tty device, the baud
rate, nor any of the options crtscts, xonxoff,
-crtscts, defaultroute, lock, netmask, -detach,
modem, local, mtu and proxyarp. Use the equivalent
diald commands to control these pppd settings.
It seems what you have is diald in control of the tty. It starts pppd and
waits for pppd to start xferring packets with the remote host. pppd is
waiting to get controle of the tty, because it was told to do so
someplace. Because pppd seems to be stuck diald kills it and attempts to
redial.
I hope this helps.
L8R,
--Rick
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