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Subject: Re: user-ppp in direct-mode 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> dear ladies and gentlemen, 
> 
> recently i updated my on the whole perfectly running freebsd
> 2.2.2-release system to 2.2.5-release. everything seemed to work out
> fine but user-ppp in direct-mode. my configuration is as follows: i am
> using mgetty to pay attention whether a dialin occurs. everything is
> working fine connecting in terminal mode. also, auto_ppp i compiled
> mgetty with is functioning very well. i added a ppp-user and provided
> him /usr/etc/ppp.dialup instead of a shell and when i connect with any
> ppp-client (even windows ;-)) the authentication is led through and
> passed and the connection is established. from this moment on all tcp/ip
> services are possible and everything seems ok. but when i close the
> connection from the client side meaning, that i do not longer wish to
> download files or so and just terminate, the 'ppp -direct <label>'
> services remains and is not terminated when the connection has come to
> an end. this means that the system assumes the connection is still up an
> won't let another dial in occur. this is a bit annoying since only one
> dialin from e.g my office to my home computer archive is possible. i
> presume this is a bug and since several things have been improved in ppp
> purposes this might have changed, too. is there a way to re-install the
> 2.2.2-ppp-package on to my 2.2.5-system? or do you have a workaround? i
> hope so because otherwise i would have to downgrade my system back to
> 2.2.2. this would be a pity. too, because since 2.2.5 my scanner and my
> adaptec 2940 started to work fine together.
> 
> any hints would be highly appreciated, regards,

Make sure that you are "exec"ing 'ppp -direct' from your 
/usr/etc/ppp.dialup script.  This will be evident by checking ppp's 
parent process ID using ps(1).

Also, make sure that you've got "normal" carrier detect options set 
on your modem (usually the &C command).

If you're sure that these are correct, you could download the latest 
version of ppp from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian and enable debug 
logging.  This will log lines with the string "ModemTimeout" in them, 
that monitors your carrier signal.

> 
> anderl

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