Hi, I was getting this problem intermittently with a script I was using to get E-Mail on my company's server via cron. I can't remember the exact solution to the problem as it was a while back when I solved it among other problems. The one thing I remember was that if my ISP was slow at responding to my pap request it would cause this problem. From what I can remember if the ISP is slow to repond to the PAP request the pppd program would timeout and report the same message as below. I would have to check the options file on the server at work to give you the details. Unfortunatly I will not be in the office till Monday or Tuesday. Hope this helps, Graham Smith ------------------------------------------------------- On 09-Mar-2000 jeffisgod wrote:
I'm receiving the following error message when I try to run my own chatscript (I can establish a connection without any problems on the same machine using wvdial).
Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Since PPP requires the serial port to be set to 8N1, this would seem to suggest that the data bits need to be reset from 7 to 8 bits (which doesn't make much sense since wvdial has no problem, unless it forces its own internal serial port settings).
After checking the stty man page I tried resetting the character size with cs8 but it didn't change the results.
Am I resetting the wrong option, or is the error message misleading? It seems the problem with the connection is that ppp never launches after the connection is established, but is this caused by serial port settings or should I be checking the pppd options instead?
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff
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