From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 14:47:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15448 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15443 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28133; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:38:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA00601; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:41:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809052141.WAA00601@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Rob cc: "FreeBSD Questions" , work Subject: Re: ppp: Interrupted system call In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 21:43:13 BST." <3.0.3.32.19980904214313.00b98be0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 22:41:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message