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  1. Path: america.com!not-for-mail
  2. From: "Holger Kruse" <kruse@america.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
  4. Subject: Re: ppp0IPLocal
  5. Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 09:07:40 -0500
  6. Organization: private Amiga site
  7. Message-ID: <kruse.53114568@america.com>
  8. References: <4cos37$c3u@tribune.usask.ca> <4cpamc$jgl@tribune.usask.ca>
  9. Reply-To: "kruse" <kruse@cs.ucf.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: valiant.ppp.america.com
  11. X-NewsReader: IntuiNews 1.3a (7.9.95)
  12.  
  13. In article <4cpamc$jgl@tribune.usask.ca>, Clark Nikolai
  14. <aa144@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca> wrote:
  15.  
  16. > After the user anem and password it says:
  17. > 
  18. > PPPReady.~}#@!}!z} }8}!}$}%\}"}&} } } } }%}&M}75}'}"}(}">%~
  19. > 
  20. > Then sends out these (what I guess are binary packets) in intervals. I've
  21. > talked to the IP people and they say it's probably the dynamically
  22. > assigned IP number in binary and the ppp.device is expecting the number
  23. > to be in ASCII.
  24.  
  25. No, it is no such thing. Your dial script is simply waiting too long. It
  26. is supposed to wait for the string "PPPReady" and then transfer control to
  27. ppp. Please check your dial script.
  28.  
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  30. Holger Kruse   kruse@cs.ucf.edu   kruse@america.com
  31.                http://www.america.com/~kruse/home.html
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