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From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
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To: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za>
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Subject: Re: PPP what next!
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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


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