From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 10:52:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17829 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.celwave.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17824 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id QAA18227; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:26:13 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA10090; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:13:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19489; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:15:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA10024; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:12:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18707; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:15:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02376; Thu, 6 Aug 98 16:04:09 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA177221950; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:59:10 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 98 15:58:59 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980806145738.B21363@iconnect.co.ke> Subject: modem does not hang up Mime-Version: 1.0 To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="modem" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="modem" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello : User-land ppp of 2.2.5-Release is broken and can not work with mgetty. fetch a newer version. TfH > I have a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system attached to a 28.8 Multitech modem. I'm using > this modem to both connect to my ISP, and I've also set it up to allow > other people to dial into my FBSd system to send and receive mail. I have 2 > problems: > > 1. I'm using mgetty to take incoming calls. So far so good. A user dials > in, but then they cannot connect using PPP directly. The remote user is > using windows 95. I worked around that by opening a post-dial terminal > screen in win 95 and making the user type their username and password, and > giving them a login shell like this: > > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct PAPServer > > This works fine. However, I had understood that with mgetty one could use > PAP with passwdauth set in the ppp config. I made sure that the /AutoPPP/ > section in mgetty's login.conf was set correctly. Any ideas? > > 2. This is a more serious problem: After one user has dialled-into my FBSD > machine, when they disconnect from their end, the modem on my end does not > hang-up. The carrier detect stays on all the time, and if I do a ps ax, I > see the ppp -direct process still running. I have to kill the ppp process > and then only does the modem hang-up. Any ideas? > > -- > Anand > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message