Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 05:48:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP -direct indefinitely Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960830053859.7730C-100000@bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960829110712.229N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote:
> Well, I can think of two things:
>
> 1) They need to telnet into PPP (I think on port 3001, the admin port)
> and run 'quit all' to kill it properly.
>
> 2) The csh is sticking around because PPP isn't quitting and thus
> allowing the system to reap the process.
A couple of extra things to check:
- does rc.serial specifiy the line properly as a modem line?
- is the modem set to reset when DTR is dropped? [Mine has a factory
default that _ignores_ DTR transitions. :-(]
- is the modem set to drop CD when carrier is lost? [Again, on mine
I seem to recall that this was not the case; CD was always on! :-(!!]
- does your modem cable support full modem handshake? [Some (cheap?)
cables don't provide all the lines; you need RX, TX, RTS, CTS, DSR,
GND, CD, and DTR in most cases...]
I use pppd instead of ppp 'cause I can't get ppp to stay running more
than a few minutes during heavy loads; it just keeps disconnecting. :-(
Way uncool too, since ppp supports predictor-1 compression and pppd does
not :-( :-(.
Much obliged,
Mike
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