From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 10:14:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23769 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:14:25 -0800 Received: from hermes.cybernetics.net (hermes.cybernetics.net [198.80.51.103]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23763 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:14:22 -0800 Received: (from james@localhost) by hermes.cybernetics.net (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA10490; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:27:07 -0500 From: James Robinson Message-Id: <199503291827.NAA10490@hermes.cybernetics.net> Subject: Re: Needed: PPP Guru To: deo0141@omega.uta.edu (Debuggus Maximus) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:27:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503291710.LAA05840@omega.uta.edu> from "Debuggus Maximus" at Mar 29, 95 11:10:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 892 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What may be going on is as follows: You dial and log in with kermit. You escape out of kermit terminal mode and tell it to quit. -The kernel detects that there are 0 processes with open file descriptors to the modem device, so it toggles a modem control line, signalling the modem to hang up. You then start up ppp, but by that time the damage has been done -- the phone has been hung up. A quick fix would be to suspend the kermit process once you get out of terminal mode (ala control-z), then start up pppd, then kill the suspended kermit -- keeping the device reference count above 1 at all times. James James Robinson wholly endorses: FreeBSD | Zappa | Tull | Albermarle Ale | XFree86 | Seagull acoustic guitars | Quotes du Jour: "Little man, I give the watch to you." | "Hail Ants"