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Brendon Oliver wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having problems trying to establish a connection to my ISP from my Linux
> box at home (RH 5.1) using kppp.
> 
> When I hit 'connect' and view the progess in the log window, I can see the
> connection being made (modem dials, ISP answers, my username & password are
> validated ok), but then it falls over with "pppd died unexpectedly".  An
> investigation of /var/log/messages shows the following:
> 
> LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Connection terminated
> Received serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> Exit
> 
> I use the same modem (Banksia Wave SP56) from Windoze to the same ISP a/c
> with no problems. Any suggestions as to what may be wrong?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> - Brendon Oliver.

I had similar problems at odd times with my ISP, sometimes dial in straight
through, at other times timeout, I ended up using the kppp terminal window
to see exactly what was happening, it turns out my server was waiting for a
request choice of ppp,slip,terminal. so I added the Expect selection and
then send ppp to my script and I havn't had a glitch or timeout since.

hope this helps

dAz