> What is happening is that when ppp starts on bootup (ppp -quiet -ddial
> pppoe), the last entry is "dial -> carrier" and nothing else.  Normally

Looks like that the ethernet connection between your host and the modem is
broken. I get the same message when I unplug my ethernet wire.

Cheers
Martin


> we
> get a "PPPOE hook suceeded (tun0)" message after that and it goes into
> the
> LCP/IPCP phase.
> 
> I'd like to point the finger at the ISP (since they've had fun dropping
> connections in the past and they swapped out the modem without telling
> us
> -- long story, don't ask), but need to know how to interpret this
> message.  
> Are we not getting any further because a) ppp can't talk to NETGRAPH,
> b)
> NETGRAPH can't talk PPPoE to the DSL modem (bad NIC) or c) DSL modem
> isn't
> passing along our data to the ISP (bad ISP.)
> 
> -- 
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> GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca
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