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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:14:24 -0500
From: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org>
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To: jmb@FreeBSD.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk
Subject: Re: ppp
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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.
 >
 >-- 
 >  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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