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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: client & server ppp 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 1995 14:00:39 +1000."
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:59:51 -0400
From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@apollo.hq.nasa.gov>
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I whined:

>> FreeBSD pppd refuses to die and and free up the port for getty (on
>> cuaa0) so I can dial in

On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 14:00:39 +1000, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

Bruce> It probably needs the `modem' option.

Got it: from /etc/ppp/options:

    netmask 255.255.255.240         # subnet mask for our system
    #-detach                         # don't detach
    crtscts                         # enable hardware flow control
    #passive                         # establish passive link (wait for LCP)
    modem                           # use modem line control
    proxyarp                        # insert an ARP entry for the host
    lcp-echo-interval       30      # send an echo packet every 30 seconds
    lcp-echo-failure        10      # die after n failed lcp echo requests
    debug

and from my ~/.ppprc file where the dialup logs in:

    198.116.75.19:198.116.75.33

If the modem(s) hangup, pppd stays on the line and getty can't run. I
can dial back in but instead of getty, I get a dangling pppd.



Bruce> I've never seen an overhead problem in pppd.

I didn't way back in a 1.X release or something... maybe early
2.0-alpha? I was brand new to FreeBSD then...


Thanks.