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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 22:00:59 -0500
From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
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I have a problem with using mgetty (AutoPPP) and user-mode ppp as a PPP
server. 
Namely, ppp remains running after the connection is dropped and mgetty
won't take 
control of the port (answer incoming calls) until I kill the ppp
process. The log 
file indicates that the connection is dropped

  Nov  7 13:40:27 falcon ppp[16129]: Link: OsLinkdown: 205.181.248.230
  Nov  7 13:40:28 falcon ppp[16129]: Phase: Disconnected!
  Nov  7 13:40:28 falcon ppp[16129]: Phase: Connect time: 1111 secs
  Nov  7 13:40:28 falcon ppp[16129]: Phase: NewPhase: Dead

The ppp.conf file contains (the msext stuff is for Win95 clients)

default:
 set device /dev/cuaa1
 set speed 115200
 set parity none
 set timeout 0
ppp:
 disable chap
 enable pap
 enable passwdauth
 enable proxy
 set ifaddr 205.181.248.185 205.181.248.230 255.255.255.255
 enable msext
 set ns 205.181.248.185 199.201.159.5
 set nbns 205.181.248.185 199.201.159.5

The ttys file is used to start mgetty as
 ttyd1   "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D"     dialup on secure

The mgetty login.config file contains
 /AutoPPP/ - -   /etc/ppp/ppp-ppp

The /etc/ppp/ppp-ppp file is executable and contains
  IDENT=`echo $0 | sed -e 's/^.*-\(.*\)$/\1/'`
  CALLEDAS="$IDENT"
  TTY=`tty`

  if [ x$IDENT = xdialup ]; then
     IDENT=`basename $TTY`
  fi

  echo "PPP for $CALLEDAS on $TTY"
  echo "Starting PPP for $IDENT"
  exec /usr/sbin/ppp -direct $IDENT

The system is a Pentium 200 with 64M EDO and a Seagate 9G SCSI drive. It
is
running FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE. I installed what I believe are the
"latest" 
user-mode ppp binaries around November 2, 1997.
  ppp-971026-2.2-STABLE.bin.tar.gz

I saw a question similar to this posted some time ago, but I never saw a
response.
My efforts to use the ! and !bg command within ppp.linkdown to kill the
ppp 
process or even write to a file have been unsuccessful. I have tried
setting
the modem to auto answer (there are strong words against this in the
mgetty docs)
as an experiment, but I was still unable to make a connection after the
first
hang up (the initial connection works great).

It appears that I am overlooking something. Before I take the effort to
write
a daemon to handle this problem, I would appreciate it if anyone could
help.

I apologize for the length of this plea for assistance, but I tried to
include
information that may help...and it is my first posting.

Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
nrice@emu.sourcee.com