From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 5 1:41:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F3437B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.flashnet.it (ems.flashnet.it [194.247.160.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54AA43E75 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:41:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ml.ventu@flashnet.it) Received: from smtp.flashnet.it ([195.191.20.24]) by relay.flashnet.it (/) with SMTP id gA59fKe04559 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:41:21 +0100 Message-Id: <200211050941.gA59fKe04559@relay.flashnet.it> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Post Road Mailer for OS/2 (Green Edition Ver 3.0) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:41:16 EST From: Andrea Venturoli Reply-To: Andrea Venturoli Subject: Dial in only works for a while Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello. I set up a machine to accept dial-in modem connections according to the suggestions in the Handbook: _ I set up my modem so as to lock its speed, don't echo commands, don't give any reply code and auto-answer; _ I modified rc.serial so as to set-up /dev/ttyd0 as a modem at 57600 bps; _ through /etc/ttys, I instructed init to spawn a getty process with a terminal type of std.57600; _ I corrected /etc/gettytab, adding a pp options so as to invoke a script for ppp; _ I set up ppp.conf for dial-in. Everything works fine, I can login directly with a terminal emulation program (like cu) or via a ppp connection... for a while. After a few days this stops working: ppp cannot pass the login phase and if I connect with cu I see garbage coming from the remote end instead of the login prompt. If I press any single key, several other garbage chars will come in again. I tried rebooting the machine, reinvoking rc.serial, power-cycling the modem, HUPping getty, but all this usually fails, until I finally manage to get it back to work, I don't really know how. Has anyone had the same problem? Does anyone have any hint to share? Bye & Thanks a lot av. P.S. The modem is an external 3Com 56K. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message