Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:29:01 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: dicen@hooked.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Subject: Re: User ppp not hanging up modem. Message-ID: <l03010d01aee1dc47c650@[208.2.87.3]> In-Reply-To: <32BBB4C1.794BDF32@hooked.net> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961221100409.6960B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu> <32BBA85F.41C67EA6@hooked.net> <199612211751.KAA27123@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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>Nate Williams wrote: >> > >> That's *NOT* the correct thing. What happens when for some reason >> PPP happens to send the sequence '+++' to the modem? All of a sudden >> it'll drop into command mode and you're screwed. User-PPP (as well as >> all other PPP/SLIP implementations I've worked with) assumes that you've >> disabled the escape sequence at least temporarily. >> >Interesting. But, what exactly is the prabobalitity of that? I will have >think about this one. Actually, NOTHING happens. The escape sequence must be followed by a period of idle (output only) time. If you transmit any character before the timeout period expires, the modem ignores the sequence.
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