Dial-in servers can experience problems because of conflicting speed settings. The following procedure helps you to isolate the cause of the link problem to conflicting serial-line speeds.
The following behaviors cause speed problems:
You invoked PPP through a program such as /bin/login and specified the speed of the line.
You started PPP from mgetty and accidentally supplied the bit rate.
pppd changes the speed that was originally set for the line to the speed that was set by /bin/login or mgetty. As a result, the line fails.
If you need instructions, see How to Turn on PPP Debugging.
Check the output for the following message:
LCP too many configure requests
This message indicates that the speeds of serial lines that were configured for PPP might potentially be in conflict.
In such a situation, pppd changes the originally configured line speed to the speed that is specified in /bin/login.
This action also causes serial-line speeds to conflict.