Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:19:11 +0200 From: Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> To: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net> Cc: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, Raymond Pert <rpert@ji-net.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP what next! Message-ID: <20010923231911.B1327@athalon> In-Reply-To: <20010923145634.S49297-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> References: <20010923025411.A23038@athalon> <20010923145634.S49297-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx>
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--tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 at 15:01:43 +0200, The Psychotic Viper wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. Yep, that's the better way. :-) Personally, i use a socket to control ppp. My ppp.conf contains a line like this: set socket /var/run/ppp "" 0117 Then, i have a script called `pppdial' that contains something like: #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/ppp -background && /usr/local/sbin/ipcheck and a script called `pppc' that contains: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/sbin/pppctl /var/run/ppp "$@" Now, i go `pppdial' to connect, `pppc close' to disconnect, `pppc show ipcp' to show statistics, and so on. A plain `pppc' gets me an interactive session. --=20 Piet Delport <siberiyan@mweb.co.za> Today's subliminal thought is: --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE7rlHPzRUP82sZFCcRAuxAAKCY23jws6UANO+LcrApEQ20DHenkwCfZ6vd UPanDdtL20y3uSYecz3SVX4= =JsTY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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