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On 18 Oct 1996 01:15:31 GMT, Terry Dawson <terry@baldric.no.itg.telecom.com.au> wrote:
>Holland (holland@iinet.net.au) wrote:
>:  chat[299]: send (ppp^M) 
>:  pppd[298]: Serial connection established.
>:  pppd[298]: Using interface ppp0
>:  pppd[298]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
>:  pppd[298]: Serial line is looped back.
>:  pppd[298]: Connection terminated.
>This problem occurs when pppd receives packets that it thinks it
>has sent. This suggests that something somewhere is echoing characters
>despite the fact you believe you have logged in.
>Alternatively, you might be right, it might just be that for some reason
>your pppd is jumping the gun and sending stuff before the other end is
>ready. In this case, rather than using a simple delay which would be
>retty fallible, you'd be better off using the pppd 'passive' option which
>will tell your pppd to not attempt to initiate link control, but rather to
>wait for the other end to do so.

I get this error about once in every twenty times I start pppd, 
dialing back straightaway works.  Because it's so intermittent,
I've never got around to figuring out how to fix it...  You learn
something every day :)


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