From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 17:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA15584 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from pericles.aipo.gov.au (pericles.aipo.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA15574 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.aipo.gov.au (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA02753 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:30:57 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.aipo.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from notes.aipo.gov.au(192.3.1.11) by pericles.aipo.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma002748; Mon, 5 Jan 98 12:30:39 +1100 Received: by notes.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.05b4 (287.3 12-16-1996)) id 4A256583.000D951B ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 12:28:21 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: INTERNET To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4A256583.000D93AA.00@notes.aipo.gov.au> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:36:37 +1000 Subject: User mode ppp, -ddial fails to redial after Carrier drops Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Ladies and Gentelemen, I am writing to ask for help with the superb user mode ppp. I think I have followed the 2.2.5 man pages configuration for dial on demand but when my modem drops carrier - frequent since it shares a line with a Telstra (Australia) T200 handset - it does *not* redial. The ppp.log does not show that Carrier has dropped and the ppp process tries to deliver packets from IP to the other end. kill -INT restarts but it only fails again .. Thank you. Yours sincerely,