[plug] mgetty + pppd problem

[Mike]

Looks something like a baud rate issue, are those ^Xxx etc
chars normal if the baud rate is properly negotiated ?

Rdgs

mike

At 01:36 AM 17/10/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Ok, what am I doing wrong? I can't work this one out...
>
>Windows 9x client using PPP and PAP to dial-up to a RH6.2 box running
>mgetty and pppd 2.4.1 with it's own modem connection out to the Internet
>(ppp0 via modem on ttyS0 with nolock being passed to pppd).
>
>In /etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config I'm calling pppd with:
>/AutoPPP/ -  -  /usr/sbin/pppd debug file /etc/ppp/options.server
>and pppd is suid root.
>
>Then in /etc/ppp/options.server I have:
>-detach
>asyncmap 0
>ttyS1
>crtscts
>lock
>require-pap
>refuse-chap
>login
>proxyarp
>ms-dns 10.1.1.1
>ms-dns 10.1.1.2
>
>and then in /etc/ppp/options.ttyS1 to assign the IP addresses:
>10.1.2.1:10.1.2.2
>
>The client can get a terminal no problems, it's loading up PPP and getting
>PAP up and running that's the issue. This is what happens on the dial-up
>server when the client connects:
>
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click mgetty[13269]: data dev=ttyS1, pid=13269,
>caller='none', conn='57600', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd',
>user='/AutoPPP/'
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click pppd[13269]: pppd 2.4.1 started by LOGIN, uid 0
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: abort on (BUSY)
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: send (AT&f^M)
>Oct 17 01:27:23 click chat[13274]: expect (OK)
>Oct 17 01:27:29 click chat[13274]:
>xfff^X~^X~ff^X~ff^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^Ff^Ffff^F~xfff^X~^X~f^X
~ff^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^F
>Oct 17 01:27:35 click chat[13274]:
>f^Ff^Ff^Ffff^F~x~xfff^X~^X~f^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^^^F~xf
ff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^F
>Oct 17 01:27:41 click chat[13274]:
>f^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^Fxx~xfff^X~^X~ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^@f~x
fff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~
>Oct 17 01:27:47 click chat[13274]:
>f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^Ff^F^@^^~x~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~^X~f^Ff^Xxxff^Ff^F
f^F~xfff^X~^X~^Ff^X~f^Ff^Ff^X~^Ff^X~
>Oct 17 01:28:08 click chat[13274]: alarm
>Oct 17 01:28:08 click chat[13274]: Failed
>Oct 17 01:28:08 click pppd[13269]: Connect script failed
>Oct 17 01:28:08 click pppd[13269]: Exit.
>
>And obviously on the Windows client it gives me "Computer you dialled
>didn't repsond to a network request" error.
>
>To me it looks like ppp is trying to initialise the modem when the modem
>is already up with a serial connection. Is that thinking right?
>
>Anyone with ideas?
>
>PD
>
>--
>Paul Day    Web: www.bur.st/~bonfire   PGP-key: www.bur.st/~bonfire/pk.txt
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