From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 21 10:03:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA18992 for current-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:03:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA18987 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 10:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA27167; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:03:20 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:03:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199612211803.LAA27167@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: dicen@hooked.net Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User ppp not hanging up modem. In-Reply-To: <32BBB4C1.794BDF32@hooked.net> References: <32BBA85F.41C67EA6@hooked.net> <199612211751.KAA27123@rocky.mt.sri.com> <32BBB4C1.794BDF32@hooked.net> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Reduced the Cc list to one mailing list ] > > 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. Not much, but if it happens it's a pain. > > Most of this *is* already documented in the FreeBSD handbook. > > Nope. Nope. Nope. I have look through the entire /usr/share/doc tree and > didn't find anything about ppp not hanging up modems, etc.. It discusses setting up the modems for PPP. If you don't follow the instructions then the behavior you see is undocumented. I don't ever remember seeing in my Chrysler manual an answer to a question that my car won't move because I forgot to stick oil in it and the engine locked up. You can't answer *every* question when the folks aren't willing to read the setup documentation. Nate