IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!!
Sorry.... Got carried away.... <grin> Thanks for all of your help, Philippe. At first, the login failed, but once I increased the timeout for the login sequence from 5 seconds to 15, everything fell into place. Although things work, I do have some strange messages appearing in /var/log/messages. Although things seem to be working okay, I think they're probably something that should be looked into. Can you "shed any light" on this? I've inserted comments below: <I ran /etc/init.d/diald start> Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Using fifo /var/lib/diald/diald.fifo Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Starting diald version 0.14 Jan 13 09:22:11 sally diald[9849]: Proxy device established on interface sl0 Jan 13 09:22:19 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0 Jan 13 09:22:20 sally diald[9849]: Diald initial setup completed. <I ran ping www.microsoft.com> Jan 13 09:22:34 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald[9849]: Running connect (pid = 9945). Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:22:35 sally diald-up: Initializing Modem... Jan 13 09:22:36 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:22:36 sally diald-up: Dialing system 1... Jan 13 09:22:37 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:22:50 sally last message repeated 11 times Jan 13 09:22:54 sally diald-up: Connected Jan 13 09:22:54 sally diald-up: Logging in now... Jan 13 09:22:55 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:23:04 sally last message repeated 6 times Jan 13 09:23:04 sally diald-up: PPP startup successful <This is the end of the connect script (I've changed the messages a bit and renamed it to diald-up.> Jan 13 09:23:04 sally diald[9849]: Running pppd (pid = 9956). Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:05 sally pppd[9956]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Jan 13 09:23:05 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 127.0.0.2,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 Jan 13 09:23:08 sally last message repeated 3 times Jan 13 09:23:08 sally pppd[9956]: local IP address 204.244.143.173 Jan 13 09:23:08 sally pppd[9956]: remote IP address 204.244.143.6 Jan 13 09:23:08 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173, remote 204.244.143.6. Jan 13 09:23:14 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0 <Everything above here, I'm quite happy with... but then comes the following....> Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable configuration error. Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0 Jan 13 09:23:22 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173, remote 204.244.143.6. Jan 13 09:23:31 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:31 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:32 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0 <Notice how this sequence of lines keeps repeating.... However, by this point, my ping is successfully receiving responses from www.microsoft.com....> Jan 13 09:23:32 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable configuration error. Jan 13 09:23:38 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:38 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0 Jan 13 09:23:39 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173, remote 204.244.143.6. Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:45 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable configuration error. Jan 13 09:23:55 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:55 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0 Jan 13 09:23:56 sally diald[9849]: New addresses: local 204.244.143.173, remote 204.244.143.6. Jan 13 09:24:03 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for ppp0 Jan 13 09:24:03 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:24:04 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to ppp0 Jan 13 09:24:04 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 204.244.143.173,0 => 207.68.137.65,0 <Many "filter accepted" messages snipped> Jan 13 09:24:18 sally diald[9849]: filter accepted rule 32 proto 1 len 84 packet 207.68.156.61,0 => 204.244.143.173,0 <This is the last "accepted" message because I cancelled the ping. Thus, I got the following sequence of messages as expected....> Jan 13 09:24:48 sally diald[9849]: Closing down idle link. Jan 13 09:24:55 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:24:55 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:24:55 sally diald[9849]: Removing routes for ppp0 Jan 13 09:24:55 sally diald[9849]: Changed snoop device to sl0 Jan 13 09:24:56 sally pppd[9956]: Terminating on signal 2. Jan 13 09:25:02 sally pppd[9956]: Connection terminated. Jan 13 09:25:02 sally pppd[9956]: Exit. Jan 13 09:25:02 sally diald[9849]: Setting pointopoint route for sl0 Jan 13 09:25:02 sally diald[9849]: Establishing routes for sl0 Jan 13 09:25:02 sally diald[9849]: Closing modem line. Jan 13 09:25:03 sally diald[9849]: Delaying 2 seconds before clear to dial. So, I'm quite happy in that things are working; however, I feel I should be concerned about the "PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable configuration error." messages and how the sequence repeats 3 or 4 times.... Any ideas? TIA, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
