From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 12:49:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24074 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24064 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19279; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:02:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA03826; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:51:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809071051.LAA03826@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "saqib khan" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, skhan@khi.ncr.com.pk Subject: Re: BSD PPP problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Sep 1998 10:18:35 PDT." <19980906171835.3469.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 11:51:20 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're running the version of ppp that ships with FreeBSD-2.2.5, this is a known problem (see the 2.2.5 ERRATA.TXT). Upgrade ppp from http://www.Awfulak.org/ppp.html and you should have now problems. > Hi, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD on my machine, nad have configured the > Dail-in PPP on it. The setup works fine, whenever I connect from my home > win95 laptop, and disconnet properly. Howeve if due to some reason the > connection terminates abruptly ( line problem etc.), the port on which > the mgetty is running hangs up i.e the PPP session is not ternimated, > due to whihc i cannot reconnect. The modem does not go into ready state > again. > I need to kill the PPP process on that port. > > Is this a bug, or am i doing somethign wrong here. > will appariciate if you could reply on khansaqib@hotmail.com or at > skhan@khi.ncr.com.pk > > ThanX -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message