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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:25:20 -0500
From:      "Frank E. Terhaar-Yonkers" <fty@mcnc.org>
To:        jmb@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ppp
Message-ID:  <199512201325.IAA15614@robin.mcnc.org.mcnc.org>

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Nope.  No "delete ALL".

If the phone lines are "having a good day" it's solid.  But I
have days where the lines are so bad, the modem gets confused 
(USR 28.8 on both ends) and I've no recourse other than 
killing ppp and restarting.

 >	do you have "delete ALL" in your /etc/ppp/ppp.{linkup,conf}
 >
 >	this seems to be an X killer.
 >
 >	every night i start ppp with "ppp -auto foobar".  before sleep i 
 >kill ppp with kill -9.   X and my machine have been up for 10 days.  
 >X never gets hammered.
 >
 >	the man page stinks to high heaven.  someone needs to read the 
 >code and write a new manpage detailing all the gotchas.  a blank line in 
 >/etc/ppp/ppp.conf serves as a null label <POW!> 
 >
 >jmb
 >> 
 >
 >Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
 >play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life 
 >i am moving to a new job.                 PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
 >

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