[hylafax-users] hylafax+mgetty+ppp 2.3 connection problems

[Matt Hocker <hocker@fibresphere.com>]

I'm running Red Hat 7.0 with the latest production HylaFAX, pppd, and 
mgetty. Previously, I had been using mgetty to answer the phone directly, 
but decided that I needed the additional functionality of HylaFAX.

After getting through the Adaptive Answering dilemma that I was having 
(don't forget the COLONS...!) and the "handoff" carrier drop between 
hylafax and mgetty, I have now come to the point where mgetty will pick up 
a data call, allow a log-in to pppd then look like everything is ready to 
go.

Unfortunately, what happens is that no packets actually get through. 
Remember: this was working fine with just mgetty.

Here is my mgetty.config:
port ttyS1
  direct y
  toggle-dtr n

and my ppp options file:
auth -chap +pap login modem crtscts debug proxyarp lock
ms-dns 158.152.1.43
ms-dns 158.152.1.58
ms-wins 62.49.242.83

and finally my ppp options.ttyS1 file:
62.49.242.84:62.49.242.92

As you can see, I have a linux box with 62.49.242.84 as its IP, I assign 
one IP (62.49.242.92) to the one dial-in machine, and I assign some DNS 
entries. I have ip_forward enabled on my linux box, via inittab.

So, the question then becomes - why can I not ping even 62.49.242.84? Even 
if ip_forward was broken, I should be able to do that at least! 
Furthermore, I get a lot of "junk" (which I don't know where to look for, 
log-wise) sent initially from my Windows 2000 box (about 90 "bad" packets) 
so I suspect something is not being received correctly.

My feeling is that the handoff between mgetty and hylafax wasn't clean in 
some way.

Any thoughts? I've spent a whole lot of hours on this now... all to get rid 
of a Windows 2000 server. I'd hate to go back, but I'm getting frustrated 
with this!

Many thanks,

Matt



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