Re: about portmaster pm2-e (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 9 Aug 1997 07:55:22 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Tatsuya Kawasaki shaped the electrons to say...
>Currently that port has no outside connection though I believe a modem is
>connected w/o a power supply and Aterm which connected to both modem and
>ISDN line AND that aterm is turned off.
>
>Could it be bad RS232 connection. It seems that it stops after

Yes, the connector could be building a charge and looping it back. I've
seen that happen.

>Here is another questions for you. (I am very glad finally someone
>answered my questions. I have sent questions a few times, with no
>response.

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><omited ...>
>Received IPCP_CONFIGURE_REQUEST on port S22 of 18 bytes containing:
>xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
>
>Sending IPCP_CONFIGURE_ACK to port S22 of 22 bytes containing:
>xx xx xx xx
>
>LCP IPCP Open
>Connection Succeeded
>Received LCP_PROTOCOL_REJECT on port S22 of 750 bytes containing:
>xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
>
>Received LCP_PROTOCOL_REJECT on port S22 of 750 bytes containing:
>xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx

The Aterm seems to be misconfigured, or perhaps buggy.

I'd take the full debug dump an run it through the debug script on the
website. It may help pinpoint what it is trying to negotiate.

-MZ

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