Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:14:24 -0500 From: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org> To: jmb@FreeBSD.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199512191414.JAA27171@robin.mcnc.org.mcnc.org>
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This is bogus. The phone lines to my house are so crappy that I regularly
have to kill ijppp and restart it. I don't want to have to kill all the X
stuff as well, before I restart PPP. Running ijppp and X has been a
crap shoot. About 1/4 the time, killing ppp locks up the system.
What's the problem and why can't we fix it?
- Frank
>In reply to Jonathan M. Bresler who said
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Paul Richards wrote:
>>
>> > Killing ppp also has the side-effect of killing the X server. This makes
>> > it a real pain to use.
>>
>> OUCH!
>> watch out for the "delete ALL" in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. it works for me using
>> the following:
>
>I will, that'd probably be the problem if it is there.
>
>> Aspen:[7] tail /etc/rc.local
>> #
>> /usr/sbin/ppp -auto atinc
>> /sbin/ping -c 10 198.138.38.21
>>
>>
>> # X11 server
>> if [ -x /usr/X11/bin/xdm ]; then
>> echo -n ' xdm'; (sleep 5 ; /usr/X11/bin/xdm) &
>> fi
>>
>> the ping gets ppp to dial and set up the routes BEFORE xdm gets started,
>> else my /etc/ppp/ppp.{conf,linkup} took X down when it reconfiged the routes
>
>Good idea, sounds like this is exactly what's happening.
>
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> Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.
> Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk
> Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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