From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
Subject: ppp so close, yet so far
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:54:36 GMT


	I've been trying for awhile now to get ppp working between my home
	machine and the machine which I use at work, and I'm very close
	too, but yet as expectation builds my connection fails at the last
	moment. This is a snipet from where I tried to telnet to work (muse)
	from my home machine (athena):

	athena% telnet muse
	Trying 192.33.115.85 ...
	Connected to muse.
	Escape character is '^]'.


	SunOS UNIX (muse)

	Connection closed by foreign host.
	athena%

	It hangs seemingly just before the login prompt!!! The version of ppp 
	which I'm using is the PD version (ppp-sunos4.1.pl6) with some
	patches for memory leaks. I tried to follow the instructions from
	Karl Fox in the 'ppp/INSTALL/README' file closely. 

	I've been logging in through a 'annex' terminal server, and running
	ppp on the remote machine from within a Bourne shell. Several
	packets go back and forth before I get the above output. So I wouldn't
	think it would be control/binary characters being caught by the
	annex or the shell, but it could be.

	Also, 'tip' doesn't seem to work for dialing up and connecting with
	ppp anyone know why this is, and how to get it to work???

	I'd really appreciate any recommendations.

							many thanks,
							Darrell Schiebel
							(dschieb@nrao.edu)

********************************************
********The system at work looks like:
********************************************
muse% netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination          Gateway              Flags    Refcnt Use        Interface
localhost            localhost            UH       1      54458      lo0
athena.cv.nrao.edu   muse.cv.nrao.edu     UH       0      5          ppp0
default              sura-gw.cv.nrao.edu  UG       0      4022       le0
nrao-cv              muse.cv.nrao.edu     U        27     184770     le0
muse% 
muse% netstat -rn
Routing tables
Destination          Gateway              Flags    Refcnt Use        Interface
127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1            UH       1      54458      lo0
192.33.115.61        192.33.115.85        UH       0      5          ppp0
default              192.33.115.1         UG       0      4022       le0
192.33.115.0         192.33.115.85        U        26     184864     le0
muse% 
muse% cat /etc/gateways
net 0.0.0.0 gateway sura-gw.cv.nrao.edu metric 1 passive
muse% 
muse% /etc/ifconfig -a
le0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
        inet 192.33.115.85 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.33.115.0
ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
        inet 192.33.115.85 --> 192.33.115.61 netmask ffffff00 
lo0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
muse%

********************************************
********and the system at home looks like:
********************************************
athena% more /etc/gateways
net 0.0.0.0 gateway muse metric 1 passive
host athena gateway athena metric 0 passive
athena% 
athena% /etc/ifconfig -a
le0: flags=43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING>
        inet 192.33.115.61 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.33.115.0
ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
        inet 192.33.115.61 --> 192.33.115.85 netmask ffffff00 
ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp2: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp3: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp4: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
lo0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
athena%
athena% netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination          Gateway              Flags    Refcnt Use        Interface
127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1            UH       1      705        lo0
muse                 athena               UH       0      0          ppp0
192.33.115.0         athena               U        1      117        le0
athena%
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