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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: mstaben@umich.edu (Matthew S. Staben) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I setup for PPP dailup? - more help needed! Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 15:55:33 GMT Organization: Kresge Hearing Institute Lines: 72 Message-ID: <3r76hh$ip5@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <3qrofn$oq7@news1.best.com> <3qv7b6$8ni@rodan.UU.NET> Reply-To: mstaben@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.14.16 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve Mansfield) wrote: >In article <3qrofn$oq7@news1.best.com>, >Etienne Finet <efinet@insist.com> wrote: >>I finally have the FreeBSD 2.0 running. >>I have installed a 28.8KB modem. >>What are the steps I have to take to get >>this system connected to my Internet >>provider. >>How do I setup the PPP dailer? >>I am quite new in this but I want to get this >>working! >Well, I can help abit here, but have some problems myself. >I'm using /etc/pppd. The man page is mostly useful, with 2 noteable >exceptions: >1) You *must* have a /etc/ppp/options file. It will not work if you >don't, even if you include all necessary options in the command line, it >will complain that the file doesn't exist. >2) pppd will never tell the modem to dial, even with a properly set up >chat script, unless you use -v. >Now, for my problems (and if anyone can explain the above behaivior, be >it my stupidity or undocumented "features" please, feel free!). I can >get my IP link itself up just fine, address negotiation takes place, and >the default route is set up and I can get out and about....for about 30 >seconds, after which the link just hangs. I thought it was line noise at >my house at first, but I eliminated the line noise and the behaivior >persists. Does pppd use LQM? The netblazer on the other end of my link >will not recognize LQM, but after some traces on the interface on the >netblazer, there was no sign of any lqm packets. We may have missed them >however. Help! PPP is actually quite easy to set up. The first thing you will want to do is set up a "chat" script, wherever you want. If you're administering a multi-user system, the script should be cloaked. The chat script is simply a dialogue, consisting of two parts. The first is the response, the second the command. To begin with: dialppp.scr, separate parts with spaces ------------------ -- ATZ OK AT&Q5S11=95 OK ATDT<phone number> CONNECT /r ogin: mstaben assword: <your password> <prompt string> PPP And then, you will want to create a command file, for example: dialppp ----------- PPPD /dev/cuaa0 speed 57600 -f "chat /usr/sbin/dialppp.scr" netmask 255.255.255.0, etc, etc. and then chmod u+x the file! This will get the thing going. It's real simple. FYI, if you look under /usr/share/FAQ/Text you will find a neat way of setting up your PPP, including an excellent script. Matt