[clue-tech] [spam?] Re: Troubleshooting ppp.

[Jim Ockers]

Thanks Dave! :)

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> So I'm late working on this, and later following up.  But Jim Ockers rocks!
>
> Jim Ockers wrote:
>   
>> I think your PPP is probably working fine. What is the command line that
>> was used to start pppd? Is it running as a child process of some other
>> parent process? Is there some way you can make pppd get started by init
>> or run it from the command line? (Make sure you use the -detach command
>> line option if you start it with init!)
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> You could just try running pppd on the command line and not from any
>> dialer program and see if it still dies this way.
>>     
>
> You were right, PPP was fine.  I tried using kppp and once I figured out how the user name and 
> password were translated it connects fine.  So now I don't need the silly Java app that Juno uses as 
> a front end.  I'm really glad of that.
>
> I don't know why pppd was getting killed so quickly.  Maybe something changed that prevented the 
> Juno app from recognizing the connection.
>
> So thanks for giving me pointers that got me thinking about the different things happening and how 
> to pick them apart.
>
> Dave
>   

15 years of experience troubleshooting PPP and unix/Linux serial 
connectivity goes a long way toward knowing the right questions to ask. 
:) Even so, I still get stumped once in a while and it takes a lot of 
digging to figure it out.

Jim
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