Parul Mathur wrote on Thursday, October 25, 2001
PCQ has the following advice: (Do all this as root.)
[snip]
which /usr/bin/kppp is a symbolic link to
/usr/bin/consolehelper
and the actual binary is /usr/sbin/kppp.)
First of all, Parul, thanks for the clipping of the article from PCQ. I'll try it out today. And I'm also sorry for replying so late.
Any way, as few of us might remember that Parul and I had similar problem with pppd with exit error code 17. I think I've found the reason, as to why this happens. In all probability the ISP's ppp server is too slow to startup or it's heavily loaded with connection request.So when the pppd sends the link configuring packets they just get bounced from the remote modem, thereby giving a *serial loopback*. My ISP is roltanet and sometimes it's even worse than a connection to Caltiger. So this is what I and one of my friends believe. If someone on the list can confirm this, it'd be really good as far as the concepts of these things goes.
One easy soln. will be to slow down the speed at which pppd initially connects to the ISP, which we generally set to 57600. Setting this to some lower speeds helped me to connect to my ISP. However, I think there has to be some better soln. which we can set in /etc/ppp/options or something similar. It'll take some time to find out this.
Thanks for tolerating a long mail.
Regards, Kinjal Sonpal