Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Bellsouth dial-up, trying to anyway. :-(

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

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

I'm not sure but maybe it is something to do with my modem.  I had a
different modem when I used my brothers account a long time ago.  That
is all that has changed on my end.

Any more ideas?

Dale

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