[ILUG] Connecting to Tinet with Linux

[David Reynolds]

Dear Linux users,

I'm connecting to tinet with SuSe 6.1 with limited success. I'm using kppp
which comes with kde rather than ppp (mainly because I haven't figured out 
how to go back into text mode after logging-out from kde). I have two problems.

(a) Often unable to connect.  Below is log. I've set settings like modem
timeout, pppd timeout, pre-init delay and post-init delay to 90 seconds.
However it seems there's a LCP timeout of 30 seconds.

Aug  4 22:10:45 earth pppd[968]: pppd 2.3.5 started by david, uid 500 
Aug  4 22:10:45 earth pppd[968]: Using interface ppp0 
Aug  4 22:10:45 earth pppd[968]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 
Aug  4 22:10:45 earth pppd[968]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xea736bc> <pcomp> <accomp>] 
Aug  4 22:11:15 earth pppd[968]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
Aug  4 22:11:15 earth pppd[968]: Connection terminated. 
Aug  4 22:11:16 earth pppd[968]: Exit.

(b) pppd unexpectedly terminates, usually after a few minutes. Below is log.
Modem just hangs-up.

Aug  5 22:36:46 earth pppd[215]: pppd 2.3.5 started by david, uid 500
Aug  5 22:36:46 earth pppd[215]: Using interface ppp0
Aug  5 22:36:46 earth pppd[215]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Aug  5 22:36:46 earth pppd[215]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xead23e42> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xead23e42> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 7e 1e 5b>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 < 00 04 00 00> < 11 04 05 f4> < 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 7e 1e 5b>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <magic 0xead23e42> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1524> <asyncmap 0xa0000> <auth chap 05> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 <06f07fb9f74a1d82b5cd7cb4760d6450>, name = "XXXXXXXX"]
Aug  5 22:36:49 earth pppd[215]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 <d02281763385a33fd6f1219062c076fd>, name = "XXXXXXXX"]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x1 "\000"]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: Remote message: 
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15> <deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 159.134.238.24>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x1 "\000"]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 <addr 159.134.217.69>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr 159.134.217.69> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0x3 80 fd 01 01 00 0f 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 159.134.217.69> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: local  IP address 159.134.217.69
Aug  5 22:37:07 earth pppd[215]: remote IP address 159.134.238.24
Aug  5 22:37:36 earth pppd[215]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Aug  5 22:37:36 earth pppd[215]: Modem hangup
Aug  5 22:37:36 earth pppd[215]: Connection terminated.
Aug  5 22:37:36 earth pppd[215]: Exit.

Thanks for any help.

David