strange PPP negotiation problem with GPRS mobile phone

[Doug White]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Alessandro de Manzano wrote:

> I'm having very strange (to me) PPP problems with a 4.8-R notebook
> trying to connect to the Internet via a GPRS mobile phone.

Quick analysis: It doesn't like something in the negotiation, since it
rejects config attempts. Usually its supposed to tell you what it didn't
like, but I'm not seeing that in the printout.

Try reducing the MTU. its about the only thing you can adjust :)

> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendConfigReq(7) state = Ack-Sent
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  ACCMAP[6] 0x00000000
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  MRU[4] 1500
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  MAGICNUM[6] 0x46e4317a
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  AUTHPROTO[4] 0xc023 (PAP)
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP: deflink: RecvConfigRej(7) state = Ack-Sent

I wonder if you can turn this off:

> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendIdent(6) state = Ack-Sent
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  MAGICNUM 46e4317a
> Jun 30 20:55:58 asusmobile ppp[134]: tun0: LCP:  TEXT user-ppp 3.1 (built Jun 15 2003)


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