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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!cnn.Princeton.EDU!usenet From: Lewis Chen <chenl@lasorda.princeton.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD 2.10 can't get ppp to work .. packet mode? Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:02:11 -0500 Organization: Princeton University Lines: 11 Message-ID: <30FFB273.41C67EA6@lasorda.princeton.edu> References: <4dmj39$o4d@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: drysdale.princeton.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Aaron Springer wrote: > > I installed 2.10 via ftp.. but now when I run ppp I connect to service > provider and then get ppp "packet mode" and it just hangs. Any advice? > Thank you.. It's useful to look the log file ppp produced, /var/log/ppp.log Take a look and see where it hung. PPP may hang when the option negotiation goes into an infinite loop. When I first tried to use ppp, it hung over the CCP protocol negotiation: ppp wanted PRED1, but my provider insisted on BSD compression. The solution, I disabled CCP negotiation, and now everything works fine.