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Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 01 June 2007 11:51, Dale wrote: |
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>> On this, I turned the volume up and it answers the phone just fine. It |
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>> starts the handshake part then connects at 26400 like is usually does. |
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>> The only difference is that BellSouth does not seem to send a login |
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>> prompt and my system does know what to do so it just tries to connect |
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>> blind as a bat without sending the login/password. |
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> This indicates that you have set it up to use link control protocol (LCP) |
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> which is the first part of establishing a PPP link, but BellSouth may be |
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> using CHAP? |
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>> We have caller ID here and it works fine. My brother who uses windoze |
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>> and lives next door uses them and it works fine for them. I may try it |
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>> again to see if anything has changed. Maybe it needed time to use the |
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>> caller ID to see we are allowed to connect. |
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>> I'm open to ideas though. I have tried Kppp, wvdial and pon and get no |
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>> joy out of it at all. No worky. :-( |
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> I assume that you have tried out the different authentication methods in kppp |
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> (pap/chap and what not). Not sure if the use of tcpdump and, or wireshark |
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> would show anything particularly revealing here? This would be more |
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> meaningful if you compare with a dial up number that actually works. |
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> From what I understand BellSouth use 'TCP header compression' which I believe |
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> requires the vj-max-slots option enabled in pppd, but don't know for sure |
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> what the number should be, if this is enabled by default, etc. (you could try |
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> from 2 to 16 and see what gives). |
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> Additionally, a chat with the ISPs' sysadmin might help (if need be with |
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> giving you a login script). If their system works with OSX which I believe |
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> it does, it would probably work with Linux too. |
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You may have hit on something good there. I disabled vj a long time ago |
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because I was having trouble with it. I took that out and will try |
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again. The funny things is, I used this at my brothers once and it |
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worked fine. |
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I'll post back what I find out. |
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Thanks much. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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