Steve Loft wrote:
> I've been connecting quite happily to my ISP using PPP and diald on a
> Linux box. I now want to connect to a different ISP.

> It dials, then immediately drops the connection and redials. It's not
> obvious to me from the log what's going on. My username for this second

If it's not obvious to you from the log then how obvious do you think
it is to anyone without the log messages?

> ISP has both a forward slash and an 'at' symbol in it. I've put it in
> quotes in pap-secrets, but I wondered if it could be these characters
> which were causing the problem, and whether I need to escape them or
> something?

I've never had special characters in a secret and so can't give a good
answer to the question. If it turns out to be causing the problem then
I'd say do cut-and-try until you find the answer.

Since you've said the connection is immediately dropped there is a good
chance it is not the problem, since it usually takes time to reach the
authentication stage - although, admittedly, a short time.

The best thing you could do at this point is to add the pppd debug
option and the chat -v option (assuming chat is used) - ah, no, I see
you use diald, so configure it for maximum verbosity - and post exact
copies (cut-and-paste) of the related log messages. Here they are found
in /var/log/{debug,messages} but you mileage may vary. If you'd like
I'll post a recipe that should put all the messages in one log, unless
diald chooses some other log for it's messages.

Bottom line: We need verbose log messages to offer further help.

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I wrote:

> It dials, then immediately drops the connection and redials.

Forgot to change the username in /etc/diald.conf! Oops. Apologies.
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Steve Loft

Steve Loft writes:

]I've been connecting quite happily to my ISP using PPP and diald on a
]Linux box. I now want to connect to a different ISP.

]It dials, then immediately drops the connection and redials. It's not
]obvious to me from the log what's going on. My username for this second
]ISP has both a forward slash and an 'at' symbol in it. I've put it in
]quotes in pap-secrets, but I wondered if it could be these characters
]which were causing the problem, and whether I need to escape them or
]something?

Could be. HOwever, there is absolutely no way we can know. Post the
debug log output.
Put debug into /etc/ppp/options, put
daemon/*;local2.* /var/log/ppplog
into /etc/syslog.conf
run the command
killall -1 syslogd
run ppp and post the output from the ppplog file.