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  From: Peter McCarthy <mccarthy@mail.austasia.net>
  To  : 'Linux SA' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:01:22 +1000

PPP

First a thanx to a Geoffrey for my Domain name questions the other week, now I have more hassels with PPP.
(I'm sure this is a real new topic)  

I have trouble with the ppp-on script.  Every time I use it I get through all the chat stuff no problem, but at the stage when ppp is negotiating for the IP address the modem hangs up.  I have had no luck getting pppd to log anything meaningful in /var/log/messages (how is this done I know it is in syslog.conf but how ???) .

I can successfully establish a link if I go through minicom and fire off 
pppd /dev/modem defaultroute
No problems, I can ping the world and everything,  just cannot get the damn script to work.

Even tried to use "ppd /dev/modem defaultroute" in the script but without success, same problem.

Your help appreciated

Peter Mc

Using RH 4.2 on my 486.