SUMMARY: ppp broken on 2.5 upgrade

From: Henry Katz (hkatz@panix.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 1996 - 23:34:03 CST


I had written that my upgrade from 2.5b to 2.5 broke my PPP setup and
had included my Systems, Dialers and Devices files (/etc/uucp)
and excerpts from my asppp.log file. The symptom was:

> 10:22:09 process_ppp_msg: PPP_ERROR_IND Maximum number of configure
> requests exceeded

and my level 9 debugs logs:

> 15:31:12 000024 ipdptp0 RECEIVE {Unescaped characters: 0a 0d } PPP ASYNC
> 252 Octets {BAD FCS} NB (AP) {Unrecognized protocol: d 0a 43 4c 49 3a
> 20 50 65 72 6d 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 20 64 65 6e ..... }

were indicating that ascii was being received briefly from the terminal
server:

> 0a 0d ...(<CR><LF>). CLI: Permission den..

Thanks to Bob Hayes <bob@cs.wwu.edu> who suggested that I manually try my
chat script (Systems file) and determine if it was working.

ppp-gw Any ACUEC 38400 12125551212 "" P_ZERO "" \r\n\c ease? ppp name: hkatz w
ord: XXXXXXXX PPP.

Surely enough I got snagged by the old vi cut & paste line break error
where I thought the line wrapped and it actually didn't: the last 3 words
of my chat script were missing (on the second line).

Nothing broke just a few synapses.

Henry
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