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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

When I try to dial with eznet, it often times out with the message:

LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

I am using a free internet account which tends to be slow to answer (and 
also slow in use when they are busy, and they cut you off in 1 hour).

A web search eventually informed me that the default is 10 attempts by LCP 
(what is that?) to connect and you can change it in /etc/ppp/options.

I also learned that mtu and mru (packet sizes) are set to 552 by default, 
which is good for slower modems such as 28.8K (see the transcript.? files 
in /var/eznet) and can also be changed.

Since I have a 56K that connects at 53333, I added to the /etc/ppp/options 
file so that it now reads

local
crtscts
lcp-max-terminate 20   (instead of 10)
mtu 1500
mru 1500

It dialed and connected on the first try, and I am hoping that it will 
also work a bit faster now.

Instead of using eznet it might be possible to dial with the line in 
transcript.0:  /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 connect (etc.), which 
fills in the user name for you, but I can't find the phone number anywhere 
but eznet.conf.

pap-secrets has the password


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org