Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:01:43 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> To: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> Cc: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, Raymond Pert <rpert@ji-net.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPP what next! Message-ID: <20010923145634.S49297-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20010923025411.A23038@athalon>
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Hi, On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Piet Delport wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 at 07:32:15 -0400, Dru wrote: > > If your prompt changes to all caps or PPP, you're connected. You've > > also lost that prompt for the duration of your connection, so open up > > another terminal using your ALT Function keys. Running a trace route > > or a ping to a URL is a good connection test. When you're finished, > > return to the terminal with the PPP prompt and type the word by. > > The prompt isn't necessarily lost. You can press <Ctrl-Z> to suspend > PPP and return to your prompt, then immediately type `bg' to let it > continue executing in the background. > > To shut it down again, type `fg' to bring it into the foreground, then > `close' to close the connection. Just a note though, when u fork ppp AFAIK it stops data transfer for the period you suspend it. You could try the 'bg' command inside ppp(IIRC does the same as forking though) , or 'shell'. I personally start ppp with the -background option and recall ppp if i need it then 'quit' it to return to the prompt(does not kill my ppp). Killing ppp is simply done with a killall -INT ppp. Works fine for me and I have a working ppp and the full use of all my local ttys. HTH PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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