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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Monday, October 6, 2003 12:42:57 pm by JohnMcPherson
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 The ~ (tilde) is usually the first character of the incoming garbage that occurs when ppp starts on the remote machine. By waiting for it to be received, we know ppp has started on the remote machine. 
  
 -- Andrew Simpson 
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+Also try reading /usr/share/doc/pppd/FAQ - it discusses most of the error messages.  
+I got the "... not 8-bit clean" message every time I tried to dial up, and I couldn't figure out why for a LOOONG time. I eventually traced it to the ISP changing their dial-up phone number, but leaving a modem on the old number that would take the username and password, and then not start a ppp session at all. (At least, I hope it was the ISP...). pppd didn't receive *anything* back after the chatscript finished, and instead of saying "nothing received" it said "serial link is not 8-bit clean". What a completely misleading error message...  
  
 !!Reconnecting ppp when persist and maxfail, erm, fail 
  
 Add a line like this to /etc/crontab: