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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:35:46 -0800
From:      fyeung@fyeung8.netific.com (Francis Yeung)
To:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, mdurkin@tsoft.net, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject:   Re: bin/2256: PPP process on port will not close when an NT user has diconnected after a session.
Message-ID:  <9702110535.AA02438@fyeung8.netific.com>

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Greetings,



> From fyeung@fyeung25.netific.com Mon Feb 10 21:27 PST 1997
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:30:22 +1100
> From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, mdurkin@tsoft.net
> Subject: Re: bin/2256: PPP process on port will not close when an NT user has diconnected after a session.
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
> 
> > I've seen the same problem, and modems are definately configured correctly.
> > I'm not sure if the bug is in mgetty or the Cyclades driver (I haven't checked
> > to see if it exists with sio as well).
> 
> The Cyclades driver had buggy carrier handling in CLOCAL mode (which
> is mainly used by ppp and mgetty).  This was fixed a on 1996/12/5, so
> its status is:
> 
> 	pre-2.1.6: broken
> 	2.1.6R: broken (release built on 1996/11/24)
> 	-stable: broken (branch was dead)
> 	2.1.7: broken (branch hasn't woken up yet)
> 	2.2: fixed


	Which verion ? 2.2-gamma ?

	thanks.

	Francis

> 	-current: fixed
> 
> > It seems that the Cyclades driver won't generate a SIGHUP on an on-to-off
> > CD transition if clocal was toggled off while CD was already on/high.
> 
> SIGHUPs are never generated in CLOCAL mode.  ppp and mgetty poll the carrier
> detect bit, and polling was broken.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 



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