From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 14 16:54:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24358 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:54:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from myname.my.domain (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24332 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:54:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from krw@localhost) by myname.my.domain (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00210; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:55:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:55:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: User ppp/static IP address/Hangup&Redial NOT Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I was running a 3.0 snapshot ppp (which I had running from rc.d with the command 'ppp -auto tcn') worked great. When it timed out it hung up the phone line and quickly redialed whenever some traffic appeared. Life was good. Now, trying out 2.1.7 with the same ppp configuration as far as I can determine, life is not good. ppp does not hang up the line (which I test by picking up an extension and don't hear a dialtone OR modem tones) but neither does it pass any packets. Nor does it redial. The only thing I have discovered that works is to turn the modem off and on (thank god for external modems!) and kill/restart ppp. After this drastic procedure ppp will dial up and communicate happily until it times out and once again enters some sort of limbo. Is 2.1.7 ppp really this brain dead compared to 3.0? Or is there something I have to do that is no longer required on 3.0 so I didn't notice its lack until I tried 2.1.7? Any help/comments greatly appreciated! ---- Ken