Re: [MiNT] New ISP (MiNT net question)

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:53:45 +0000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:

>
>  Okay, I had to switch ISP's again, to finally find one that supports USENET
>  newsgroups.
>
>  Anyways, please look at this small excerpt from my ppp-log and see if any
>  one can tell me what might be causing the last two lines:
>
>Oct 23 10:34:50 Falcon1 pppd[95]: Serial connection established.
>Oct 23 10:34:52 Falcon1 pppd[95]: Using interface ppp0
>Oct 23 10:34:52 Falcon1 pppd[95]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyb
>Oct 23 10:34:52 Falcon1 pppd[95]: local  IP address 209.209.178.170
>Oct 23 10:34:52 Falcon1 pppd[95]: remote IP address 209.209.178.129
>Oct 23 10:35:22 Falcon1 pppd[95]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>Oct 23 10:35:54 Falcon1 pppd[95]: CCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>
>  Everything works fine, I'm using all my MiNT and GlueSTik apps okay,
>  but I never got those last 2 lines with my last 2 ISP's. After the
>  connection and the remote address is sent, the modem send and receive
>  lights flash for a little longer (ie, the 2 lines), then it stops. Is
>  this anything to worry about-or just to be ignored?

I recall I had to disable bsd compression and/or van jacobson compression
and was getting some odd msg's similarly.
You can add -vj or -bsdcomp to your pppd config and see if it helps.

Can someone verify that I recall these params correctly?  ;-)


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