From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 20 15:26:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06159 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o2.cs.rpi.edu (o2.cs.rpi.edu [128.113.96.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06153 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (crossd@localhost) by o2.cs.rpi.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id SAA15792; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:26:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:26:05 -0500 From: "David E. Cross" To: Chuck Robey cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulletproof PPP ??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message