Very Computer

: Just loaded up RH 5.1 after having formerly been a Slackware user.
: Everything works great except one important thing.  PPP dial up to my ISP.
: I am only able to connect about 1 out of 20 tries.  The rest of the time I
: get the dreaded IPCP:  Timeout sending Config-Requests.  I have searched
: Usenet and found this is a very common problem, only difference is with some
: people is it LCP instead of IPCP.  Read all the appropriate HOW TO's, looked
: at the RH tips on Dial UP and PPP, and tried the various solutions offered
: to other posts on usenet.  No luck.  Is there a working solution to this
: common problem??  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

One thing that can cause an IPCP negotiation problem is a poorly
implemented ppp at the ISP with regard to the asyncmap.  Try the pppd
option "asyncmap 0" and if this doesn't work, "asyncmap a0000", and
"asyncmap 20a0000" are other candidates.  Yet another candidate is the
asyncmap the ISP requested for itself, usually in messages found in
/var/log/debug when pppd is used with the "debug" option.

It's also possible, depending on what else is configured for pppd, that
one or both the pppd options "ipcp-accept-local" and "ipcp-accept-remote"
are necessary.  man pppd for details.

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