PPP wierdness.

[Russell Power]

Hmm...

That a bad password would respond with that error seems rather fishy.  I can
speak for the obvious here and say that perhaps your serial port isn't being
configured properly - but since the english portion of 'all had bit 7 set to
0' is escaping me at the moment, perhaps the port is being set to seven data
bits and parity is being set on for unknown purposes?  The fact that it
happens only occasionally makes me curious about that explanation,
however...

Sorry I can't be of much help,

--Russell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Juranich" <sjuranic at kant.ee.washington.edu>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: PPP wierdness.


> I had a heckuva time last night trying to connect to the internet (not to
> UW, but via a commercial ISP).  Anyway, pppd commonly fails me (I'd say
20%
> of the time, as a rough guess).  When I run the script debugger (via
kppp),
> I get the following error message:
>
> Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean.
> Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0.
>
> I asked a friend who used to deal a lot with ppp about this and he said
that
> this particular message typically means that my password was incorrect.
> Actually, I remembered last night that I went snooping through the
dialogs,
> and in one box I saw that instead of <password>, I had "<password>\".  If
> what he was saying was true, this could be the source of the problem.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable explanation to everybody else, or are
> there deeper, darker issues at work?  I'm just looking for a sanity check.
> Thanks.
>
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