Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 06:53:13 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org> Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <18129.819384793@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:14:24 EST." <199512191414.JAA27171@robin.mcnc.org.mcnc.org>
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Maybe what has to happen first is you need to figure out a way of
causing ppp to kill your system *without* running X, e.g. so that
we can get into ddb and see what's panicing!
Jordan
> 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 make
s
> >> > it a real pain to use.
> >>
> >> OUCH!
> >> watch out for the "delete ALL" in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. it works for me usi
ng
> >> 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 rou
tes
> >
> >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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