[H-GEN] pppd

[Robin & Andy McPherson-Bruce]

modem mammals, prentice ppl & various Buggers of Hum..

i come seeking knowledge (once more..) -

it seems i have a greeblie in my ppp setup, whereby establishing a
connection to my isp is straightforward enuff but maintaining said
connection beyond 1-15sec. is become an increasingly aggravating
stumbling-block.

/var/log/messages at times informs me simply that my modem has hung up &
connection terminated (usually within a couple of secs.), however, on
occasion connection is terminated after 10-15 secs. sometimes, but not
always in connection with this, i am told LCP has timed out on
Config_Requests and also that (my? their?) Receive serial link is not
8-bit clean ("all had bit 7 set to 0").

rc.local now sets /dev/cua1 to spd_vhi & crtscts; eth0 pings the win box
fine; minicom connects & allows login but the server autostarts ppp &
dies 'cos it can't get pap authentication access.

one thing which puzzles me: if cua*are for dial out, why do the docs
quote ttySn in the dialer script exec pppd command options?

tia

andy b.