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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:51:00 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Litzinger <brian@worldcontrol.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.2, ppp aliasing and netscape trouble 
Message-ID:  <199709232251.XAA07794@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:53:50 PDT." <19970923125350.34993@top.worldcontrol.com> 

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> I'm running 2.2.2 on two machines and connecting them via user mode PPP.
> 
> A ppp session running with -alias can connect to a local ISP and
> everything works great.
> 
> When I dial into my machine in my office instead, everything works
> well, except netscape 4.03b8.  (I've tried both the freebsd 4.03b8, and
> linux 4.03release.)
> 
> I can telnet to the http servers and 'GET /'. I can ftp.  The only
> things that happens is that Netscape hangs 'waiting for reply' and
> eventually says 'no data'.
> 
> I downloaded chimera and it worked correctly.
> 
> I'm running the PPP included with 2.2.2.  I've tried the 
> ftp.freebsd.org/~brian version however I get:
> 
> Sep 23 12:37:45 bls2 ppp[4238]: Phase: Using interface: tun0
> Sep 23 12:37:45 bls2 ppp[4238]: Phase: Listening at port 3000.
> Sep 23 12:37:46 bls2 ppp[4238]: Phase: PPP Started.
> Sep 23 12:37:46 bls2 ppp[4238]: Phase: Packet mode enabled
> Sep 23 12:37:46 bls2 ppp[4238]: Alert: Exception detected.
> Sep 23 12:37:46 bls2 ppp[4238]: Phase: PPP Terminated (done).
> 
> The exact same config works with the 2.2.2 included user mode PPP.
> 
> Any ideas what is going one?

Yep.  I screwed up :-(

I didn't understand that /dev/tty got closed when I closed 0, 1 & 2.  
The exception is from the descriptor that used to refer to /dev/tty.

It's now been fixed and is available on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.

> --
> brian

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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