PPP Connection.

[Peterhin]

I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
'cd /dev'
'sh MAKEDEV tun0'
I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory"

I also tried using G. Lehey instructions from his book, I get to the
point where the external modem dials at reboot, but no connection. I
have looked in the log files and it looks like Authentication failure
is my problem.
I have gone thru his setup a few times. What am I missing here.?
--
Peter

"Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power"

[Jonathan Chen]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote:

> I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
> In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
> 'cd /dev'
> 'sh MAKEDEV tun0'
> I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory"

The 5.x series uses a devfs filesystem which creates devices on the
fly. You don't have to make the devices manually anymore.

> I also tried using G. Lehey instructions from his book, I get to the
> point where the external modem dials at reboot, but no connection. I
> have looked in the log files and it looks like Authentication failure
> is my problem.

Username and password is incorrect? Post us the actual contents of the
logs and your ppp.conf (with the username/password blanked out) and we
will have a better idea just what is going wrong with your system.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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[Hauan David A]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:09 AM
To: Peterhin
Cc: [email]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org[/email]
Subject: Re: PPP Connection.


On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote:

> I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
> In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
> 'cd /dev'
> 'sh MAKEDEV tun0'
> I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory"

The 5.x series uses a devfs filesystem which creates devices on the
fly. You don't have to make the devices manually anymore.

> I also tried using G. Lehey instructions from his book, I get to the
> point where the external modem dials at reboot, but no connection. I
> have looked in the log files and it looks like Authentication failure
> is my problem.

Username and password is incorrect? Post us the actual contents of the
logs and your ppp.conf (with the username/password blanked out) and we
will have a better idea just what is going wrong with your system.
--

Note, if you have special characters in the username or password
you need o escape them i.e., w@sh would be w\@sh.
However, this is not always the case depending on the isp.
Good luck.

dave

[Peterhin]

On February 25, 2005 14:09, you wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote:

> > I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
> > In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
> > 'cd /dev'
> > 'sh MAKEDEV tun0'
> > I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory"

>
> The 5.x series uses a devfs filesystem which creates devices on the
> fly. You don't have to make the devices manually anymore.
>

> > I also tried using G. Lehey instructions from his book, I get to
> > the point where the external modem dials at reboot, but no
> > connection. I have looked in the log files and it looks like
> > Authentication failure is my problem.

>

OK, finger trouble on my part I have a connection now.

> Username and password is incorrect? Post us the actual contents of
> the logs and your ppp.conf (with the username/password blanked out)
> and we will have a better idea just what is going wrong with your
> system.

I have a good connection however if I try to disconnect by typing
at the 'PPP ON localhost>' close
'PPP ON Localhost>
or use the 'q'
I get back to the #
however the modem has not disconnected. I did a 'ping' to confirm on
(ttyv1)
--
Peter

"Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power"

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 25 February 2005 02:12 pm, Peterhin wrote:

> On February 25, 2005 14:09, you wrote:

> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:11:34PM -0500, Peterhin wrote:

> > > I have 5.3 installed, and am trying to get my dial-up going.
> > > In the handbook under 21.2.1.2 when I try to do a
> > > 'cd /dev'
> > > 'sh MAKEDEV tun0'
> > > I get "can't open makedev: No such file or directory"

> >
> > The 5.x series uses a devfs filesystem which creates devices on the
> > fly. You don't have to make the devices manually anymore.
> >

> > > I also tried using G. Lehey instructions from his book, I get to
> > > the point where the external modem dials at reboot, but no
> > > connection. I have looked in the log files and it looks like
> > > Authentication failure is my problem.

>
> OK, finger trouble on my part I have a connection now.
>

> > Username and password is incorrect? Post us the actual contents of
> > the logs and your ppp.conf (with the username/password blanked out)
> > and we will have a better idea just what is going wrong with your
> > system.

>
> I have a good connection however if I try to disconnect by typing
> at the 'PPP ON localhost>' close
> 'PPP ON Localhost>
> or use the 'q'
> I get back to the #
> however the modem has not disconnected. I did a 'ping' to confirm on
> (ttyv1)

Is ppp still active in the background? What does 'ps ax | grep ppp'
return?

I used to kill ppp using a "hangup" python script:


#!/usr/local/bin/python
# /usr/local/bin/hangup.py

import os, string, sys

a = 'ps ax | grep ppp'
b = os.popen(a).readlines()
c = b[0]
d = string.split(c)
os.popen('kill ' + d[0])



Best regards,

Andrew Gould

[Peterhin]

OK here is what I get when I
'ps ax | grep ppp'

'202 ?? ls 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -auto -nat papchap'

FYI. the modem does disconnect after the '300sec'.
and I can re-dial to get the connection again, so that all works fine.
Also I think what is happening is that on boot-up once it gets to
'looking for host time.nrc.ca and service NTP' the modem starts, so that
explains why it starts at boot-up, it needs to satisfy that call.

Part of this steeeep learning curve for a newbie like me is also
learning the logic behind the sequencing of different activities.

Now having said that, a further question, and I have read the man pages,
handbook, and sundry other books, is I can't seem to understand how I
can setup 'ppp' to dial out manually. (ie. only when I want it to, as I
have another computer that shares the one phone line that I have
avail. for this purpose).
If you could shed some light on this function I would be very
appreciative.

As for your suggestion: 'I used to kill ppp using a "hangup" python
script:'
At this stage that is over my head.

Peter

"Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power"

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 25 February 2005 03:47 pm, Peterhin wrote:

> OK here is what I get when I
> 'ps ax | grep ppp'
>
> '202 ?? ls 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -auto -nat papchap'
>
> FYI. the modem does disconnect after the '300sec'.
> and I can re-dial to get the connection again, so that all works
> fine. Also I think what is happening is that on boot-up once it gets
> to 'looking for host time.nrc.ca and service NTP' the modem starts,
> so that explains why it starts at boot-up, it needs to satisfy that
> call.
>
> Part of this steeeep learning curve for a newbie like me is also
> learning the logic behind the sequencing of different activities.
>
> Now having said that, a further question, and I have read the man
> pages, handbook, and sundry other books, is I can't seem to
> understand how I can setup 'ppp' to dial out manually. (ie. only when
> I want it to, as I have another computer that shares the one phone
> line that I have avail. for this purpose).
> If you could shed some light on this function I would be very
> appreciative.

If you have 2 computers needing to dial-out, you might consider sharing
the ppp connection. The online handbook covers this at:

[url]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.html[/url]

>
> As for your suggestion: 'I used to kill ppp using a "hangup" python
> script:'
> At this stage that is over my head.
>
> Peter
>
> "Civil Liberties are at the whim of those in power"