[gentoo-user] Re: ppp connection problem

[Moshe Kamensky <moshe.kamensky@googlemail.com>]

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* Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@fraggod.net> [09/03/09 06:15]:
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:20:32 -0400
> Moshe Kamensky <moshe.kamensky@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We called the ISP, and from their side it seems that he is connected, 
> > and everything is fine. I don't know where else to look. The log 
> > messages showed in the beginning messages of the form
> > 
> > LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> > 
> > but they seem to no longer appear. As I said, I don't even know where to 
> > start looking for the problem. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> I can suggest trying at least two things:
> 
> 1. pon <connection name> debug nodetach
>   You'll see a lot of messages, and, probably, some errors. Most of
>   them are probably non-fatal, but try eliminating all of them by
>   setting right asyncmap, compression, authentication etc
>   In the end you should get IP and connection shouldn't break after a
>   minute or so, which is often because of 2.

Thanks. As far as I understand, the <connection name> should be the name 
of a file in /etc/ppp/peers? If so, this is probably something he should 
create.

> 
> 2. ip route
>   Check that there's only one default route, that there's a route to IP
>   you're connecing with, aside from default one through it, and that
>   it's metric is lower than the default one. Check that you can still
>   ping that IP.

I checked that already, that seems fine.

Thank you,
Moshe

> 
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> Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net



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