On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Johan Carlsson wrote:

> Thanks Bob, I tried this w/ all four different null modems. Unfortunatley
> the result is still the same: "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests".

Try setting daemon.debug in /etc/syslog.conf to send messages to a
file, usually /var/log/messages. Then set the "debug" option, and post
the output. With all the details of the LCP phase in hand, it might be
possible to determine exactly what point the two machines are failing
to agree on.