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pppd dies unexpectedly

I am completely new to any kind of sysadmin! I installed linux in another partition from Win98. System is Pentium 400 wtih 128 megs of ram and a 15 gig hard drive. Modem is external (first hard learned lesson!)
Modem dials and I am logging into the network (MindSpring from a single stand-alone home pc) when the pppd dies unexpectedly. The following is the message:
April 28 22:55:57 localhost ppps(688) pppd 2.3.10 started by root.uido
using interface ppp0
Connect ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
LCP terminated by peer
Hangup (SIGHUP)
Modem hangup
Connection terminated
Exit

Login script Debug Window:
ATZ
OK
ATMOLO
OK
ATDT3626500
Connect 49333 V42bis

Made sure to issue chmod u+s pppd as root
disabled lock by using the command sign # (# lock)
using Linux Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe
using PAP (but don't know what that is!)
I appreciate any help you can give me as I have been at this research and living hell for weeks! Please understand that I do not understand system admin and am just starting to teach myself. Thank you for your help.
Michele
morp@mindspring.com

jlevie

The remote (peer) is terminating the connection while it's negotiating LCP (Line Control Protocol) and that could be due to a number of things. To find out what's failing you'd need to use the "debug" option for pppd and look at the /var/log/messages for what pppd logs via syslog.

Have you tried using kppp to connect? It's a fair bit easier to setup and use than pppd is.

smile040800

pap=password authentication protocol.
try setting the timeout=60, generally its 30. This sometimes solves the problem

jyu_88

make sure you have 'noauth' in your pppd's option file. Otherwise, your pppd may request the peer to authenticate itself to you ( which the ISP's ppp server will refuse and terminate LCP negotiation in most cases).

And, 'asyncmap 0x0' in the options file may help too. This worked for my ISP, a regular Solaris PPP server. heard that mindspring is a solaris shop and all...

slavezer0

Check if you set up the modem i.e. check to see if your modem is configured properly according to the com ports

dev/ttyS0----> com1
dev/ttyS1----> com2

and so on....

check the above it might help to solve your problem

if it helps pls consider my points ;)

morp16

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Thank you for the attempt, buy my modem is configured properly! Michele

jlevie

Have you enabled debug to see where it's failing (or tried kppp) yet?

morp16

ASKER

Yes - debug is how I was able to include the statement of what was happening.
With kppp - that is how I started - knowing nothing of sysadmin. and nothing of programming, I started with kppp assuming everything would work. The modem was the first problem ( had to buy an external) and now that works fine. The modem query works well.
It is the peer and the LCP (whatever they are). I tried going into pppd options (the only thing there was 'lock'. I put a # before it and added a line underneath that says ' noauth '. That also did not work.
I don't know where to find a var/syslog to check that out.
HELP! Thank you...

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jlevie

Syslog writes it's output into /var/log/messages and that's where you should look for additional info taht the debug option should produce.