Weirdness

Clayton O'Neill (coneill@premier.net)
Sun, 22 Oct 1995 20:28:20 -0600 (CST)

I'm getting strange output from my PM2e-30. I've got the following
syslog entries.

Oct 22 21:05:59 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S15 ts1050 succeeded dest 204.178.177.50
Oct 22 21:06:01 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S20 ts1122 succeeded dest 204.178.177.122
Oct 22 21:06:08 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S20 connection succeeded dest scc8211.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:06:27 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S15 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:06:33 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S29 session disconnected dest zoom.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:06:39 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 session disconnected dest wilbanks.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:06:49 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:06:53 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 ts2021 succeeded dest 204.252.230.21
Oct 22 21:06:53 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 connection succeeded dest vareck.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:07:08 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S15 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:07:12 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S15 ts2148 succeeded dest 204.252.230.148
Oct 22 21:07:12 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S15 connection succeeded dest lonewolf.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:07:14 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S29 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:07:18 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S29 ts2146 succeeded dest 204.252.230.146
Oct 22 21:07:18 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S29 connection succeeded dest jcryer.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:07:22 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 session disconnected dest vareck.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:07:27 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 ts1050 login failed
Oct 22 21:07:30 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:07:57 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 ts1050 succeeded dest 204.178.177.50
Oct 22 21:08:42 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
Oct 22 21:08:46 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 ts1222 succeeded dest 204.178.177.222
Oct 22 21:08:46 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 connection succeeded dest trauma.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:09:49 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S4 session disconnected dest gcheng.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:09:55 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 ts2077 succeeded dest 204.252.230.77
Oct 22 21:09:59 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S21 connection succeeded dest lcarsno.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:10:37 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S19 session disconnected dest daoliver.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:11:12 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S4 ts2060 succeeded dest 204.252.230.60
Oct 22 21:11:15 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S4 connection succeeded dest dstamant.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:12:33 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S24 session disconnected dest cs-usa.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:13:46 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 session disconnected dest trauma.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:14:47 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S6 session disconnected dest bradjw.dialup.premier.net
Oct 22 21:14:49 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 ts2089 succeeded dest 204.252.230.89
Oct 22 21:14:56 ts-2.premier.net dialnet: port S8 connection succeeded dest lcowart.dialup.premier.net

If you notice, I've got some strange occurances at 21:07:30, 21:07:14,
21:07:08, 21:06:49, etc. The problem is that the PM2 is apparently
negotiating IPX on the 9090900F network, but I don't even have IPX turned
on. Also, I have reason to believe that this is occuring with clients
(Trumpet Winsock for example), that don't even support IPX over PPP.
I've tried doing a set debug 0x51 and the set console, with no noticable
problems. Is this a known problem? Could it be causing problems?

Also, I found a copy of an old message from the mailing list that seems
to be a similar, but perhaps unrelated problem. That is attached to the
bottom of this message. Brian, any idea what the outcome of the other
guy's problem was?

> I'm looking for some thoughts on what this is all about. I've been
>trying to get pppd-2.2 for Linux (1.3.30 kernel) working using PAP for
>authentication. I'm trying to connect to a Portmaster 2e/30 running ComOS
>3.1.4. I want to get this working without using the "+ua" switch to pppd
>which, according to the man page, is obsolescent. It also bugs me that I
>can't get this working. :)

> I've tried using the "-chap" switch. I've also tried to turn off
>packet compression. I've also tried specifying an asyncmap. Does the
>Portmaster support either CCP or BSD-Compress protocols?

> The output from the debug output shows:

>Oct 2 14:04:03 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0xac661ec> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0xac661ec> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x12386469> <pcomp> <accomp> <auth upap>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <pcomp> <auth upap>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0x12386469> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x12386469> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:06 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x12386469> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic xac661ec> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0xac661ec> <accomp>]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 12>]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x4]
>Oct 2 14:04:09 blackhole pppd[303]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x4]

> On the syslog output for the Portmaster I see:

>Oct 2 13:37:50 crumm.net.CSUChico.EDU dialnet: port S0 PPP succeeded dest Negotiated ipx 909090FF
>Oct 2 13:37:53 crumm.net.CSUChico.EDU dialnet: port S0 ppp_sync failed dest

> Now, I don't even have IPX enabled on the Portmaster. Somebody's
>just a little confused here. ;)

> Has anyone gotten this situation to work? Can you give me the correct
>command line options and an example of what the pap-secrets file looks like?

> Thank You.

>Chris...

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Clayton O'Neill