I have isolated most of my ppp woes. By running with options debug and kdebug 7 I have been able to compare detailed input and output from my ISP through 2 different distros, set up to use the same options (as best as I can tell due to significantly different configuration packages <sigh>).
The problem seems to be with the Link Control Protocol (LCP) which has slightly different content between the 2 systems. On the Mandrake Beta 8.0 the relevant differences are in these lines (this works): [pppd] <pid> Local IP address changed to x.y.z.2 [pppd] <pid> Remote IP address changed to x.y.z.2 [pppd] <pid> [IP Data] 45 00 00 54 00 00 40 00 ... On the Debian unstable (this does not work): [pppd] <pid> local IP address x.y.z.2 [pppd] <pid> remote IP address x.y.z.2 [pppd] <pid> primary DNS address x.y.w.32 [pppd] <pid> secondary DNS address x.y.t.31 ...... [pppd] <pid> [LCP EchoReq .... Connection to my ISP is normally done without PAP or CHAP, using a simple chatscript. Note that both systems have option usepeerdns enabled. I have also tried without usepeerdns and by building my own resolv.conf file with appropriate dns servers. The version of ppp generic driver is 2.4.1 on both systems. The Debian package is 2.4.0f-1. All dependencies have been met with no errors in terms of other packages. Is this a bug or have I made an error? John Davidson
