From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 10:28:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA24213 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:28:59 -0700 Received: from nrnsinc.on.ca (0@rads.dnd.ca [131.136.194.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA24207 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:28:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199507061728.KAA24207@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from nrnsinc.on.ca by nrnsinc.on.ca id <13953-0@nrnsinc.on.ca>; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:28:28 -0400 Subject: Re: Old 1.1.5.1 ppp problem To: mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov (Michael C. Newell) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:28:26 -0400 (EDT) Cc: pechter@sesd.ilex.com, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael C. Newell" at Jul 5, 95 04:01:03 pm Reply-to: robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca Organization: DREnet Network Coordination Centre, 1-613-599-7860, 1-613-990-9302 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1019 From: Ken Robinson Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, William Pechter ILEX Systems wrote: > > > I finally got the house a dial-up net connection with PPP. > > > > I seem to be having one major problem. My modem drops the line on the > > transition between kermit and pppd (or just after pppd starts). > > When you exit Kermit it drops DTR, which causes the modem to hang up. > You need to turn off DTR hangup sensing on the modem; for my Hayes Accura > I use "AT&D0" to do this. An alternative is to use a package like chat > invoked by pppd to do the dialing... I think you could also get away with using the kermit SUSPEND command. Once the connection is up, exit out to the kermit command line and SUSPEND it. Then bring up ppp. I use this with SLIP on a 1.1.5 system. Remember to clean up the background kermit when your done though. -- Ken Robinson DREnet Network Coordination Centre (NCC) NRNS Incorporated Phone: 613.599.7860 Fax: 613.599.7739 135 Michael Cowpland Dr., Suite 302 Kanata, Ontario K2M-2E9