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Im using SuSE Linux 6.1. My provider needs a CHAP authentication. When
I try to establish a connection with my own scripts, I get the following
messages in /var/log/messages.

May 19 17:05:22 tobbz pppd[536]: Serial connection established.
May 19 17:05:23 tobbz pppd[536]: Using interface ppp0
May 19 17:05:23 tobbz pppd[536]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
May 19 17:05:23 tobbz pppd[536]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic
0xa2a7f6d5> <pcomp> <accomp>]
May 19 17:05:50 tobbz last message repeated 9 times
May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: Connection terminated.
May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:

May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
May 19 17:05:53 tobbz pppd[536]: Exit.

The same configuration for kppp results in the following messages:

May 19 16:42:33 tobbz pppd[256]: pppd 2.3.5 started by tobby, uid 1001
May 19 16:42:33 tobbz pppd[256]: Using interface ppp0
May 19 16:42:33 tobbz pppd[256]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
May 19 16:42:33 tobbz pppd[256]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic
0x125ddfa0>]
May 19 16:43:03 tobbz pppd[256]: Terminating on signal 15.
May 19 16:43:03 tobbz pppd[256]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User
request"]
May 19 16:43:06 tobbz pppd[256]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "User
request"]
May 19 16:43:09 tobbz pppd[256]: Connection terminated.
May 19 16:43:10 tobbz pppd[256]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
May 19 16:43:10 tobbz pppd[256]: Exit.

Could anybody tell me what that means and what I could do to avoid that
and to successfully establish a connection?

By the way - from time to time it works but I did not understand the
circumstances under which it works.

Thanks in advance, Tobias

The most common cause for this failure is the use of a chat script
that ends with:

        CONNECT ''

This causes a CR to be emitted by the chat process after the CONNECT
string arrives.  If this CR is transmitted to the peer (modems are a
little fuzzy on when the data path is actually connected; dropping
this character could account for the occasional success you have), the
peer, if it's a normal ISP, will usually assume that the caller is a
human user, and not PPP.

If this is your situation, then you want this instead:

        CONNECT '\d\c'

If it's not, then you want to enable chat debug with "-v" and take it
from there ...

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Quote:>Could anybody tell me what that means and what I could do to avoid that
>and to successfully establish a connection?

>By the way - from time to time it works but I did not understand the
>circumstances under which it works.

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Q: When I try to establish a connection, I get an error message saying
"Serial link is not 8-bit clean".  Why?

A: The most common cause is that your connection script hasn't
successfully dialled out to the remote system and invoked ppp service
there.  Instead, pppd is talking to something (a shell or login
process on the remote machine, or maybe just the modem) which is only
outputting 7-bit characters.

This can also arise with a modem which uses an AT command set if the
dial command is issued before pppd is invoked, rather than within a
connect script started by pppd.  If the serial port is set to 7
bits/character plus parity when the last AT command is issued, the
modem serial port will be set to the same setting.

Note that pppd *always* sets the local serial port to 8 bits per
character, with no parity and 1 stop bit.  So you shouldn't need to
issue an stty command before invoking pppd.

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Most likely your script is not working correctly and you are not
really talking to your providers ppp demon.

Try searching http://www.deja.com for the above error for better
responses than mine.

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