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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:26:05 -0500
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bulletproof PPP ???
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811201821250.8657-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811201730570.27295-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > But in 3.0-RELEASE, PPP seems to be bulletproof. Incoming calls don't
> > knock the connection down.
> > 
> > Was there some change in the PPP implementation that makes it better
> > able to recover from noise on the line? I'm still using the same modem
> > I've had for three or four years now.

Dropping the connection is usually a function of the modem itself, not the
PPP software.  Newer modems ten to be *mch* better about NOT dropping the
connection when a call waiting tone comes on.  Was your modem, or the
modem you were dialing to upgraded recently?  Another possibility is that
that the new ppp.conf has options to auto supress call-waiting (previously
mentioned), or has options which tell the modem to try harder to
renegotiate.  Can you try backing out to the old version of FreeBSD to try
it?

--
David Cross


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