Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 22:41:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Rob <robert@irrelevant.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, work <robert@aphnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: ppp: Interrupted system call Message-ID: <199809052141.WAA00601@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 21:43:13 BST." <3.0.3.32.19980904214313.00b98be0@localhost>
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> I am having some trouble with ppp dialing automatically on FreeBSD 2.2.7
[.....]
> The modem is a Racal Winstream ISDN modem, which basically pretends to be a
> hayes modem, connected to COM1:. cts/rts handshake is definitely on..
> After several of the following messages, it will actually dial and connect
> correctly.
>
>
> Sep 4 02:00:26 alisha ppp[156]: Error: OpenModem failed: /dev/cuaa0:
> Interrupted system call
[.....]
This is because it takes a relatively long time to open the device -
this is probably ``Racal Winstream''s problem (never trust hardware
that has ``win'' in it).
This *may* be fixed at some point in the future, but not for some
time....
> As an aside, it is dialing rather too often - the above entries were at
> 2am, when there shouldn't have been anything using it! The only things on
> the network that would have been on were this box and an NT4 Server.
> Should I be blocking anything else anywhere?
What does /etc/crontab say about 2:00am ? I'll bet something in
there is doing a DNS lookup !
> Many thanks,
>
> Rob O'Donnell.
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