Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 14:30:20 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: svaar@math.uio.no (Peter Svaar) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP problem Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961219143019.009bd450@dimaga.com>
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At 07:55 PM 12/18/96 +0100, you wrote: [Original message moved further down] This probably didn't belong in hackers (I didn't tell him to send it here), but the following probably do (relating to the same system): I dropped by and looked the system over, and found that the problem wasn't that he couldn't speak to the modem. Rather, it was that the modem is already connected to his provider which is still running PPP from the previous session (remember, he is on a leased line). Power-cycling the modem make no difference; ping packets sent to his IP address still show up as noise in the PPP term :) (There is a Linux pppd in the other end of it, if that is of importance.) However, both Linux pppd (he used to run Linux) and Trumpet Winsock is able to force the other end to handshake and connect, even if it already think it is connected. I was unable to get the standard PPP from boot.flp to re-initiate that connection. Do anybody know how to force this? A way to do this from the existing floppies are preferred, but if nescessary I can patch PPP and vuild new boot floppies. (The long term solution, but I'd like a short-term solution for now, as I want FreeBSD user penetration in Norway.) Original message with technical expansions >well, I downloaded boot.flp and configured an FTP install. I am constantly >connected to the net (not dialup) thorough a two-thread line (28.8). Constantly connected to his service provider, which run a patched dial-up modems as leased line modem, and run a Linux box with pppd as their connectivity. This box do NOT 'feel' a modem poweroff or recycle. [Rest of message snipped as only containing irrelevant or incorrect information] -- Eivind Eklund gopher://nic.follonett.no:79/0eivind Work: eivind@dimaga.com http://www.dimaga.com/ Home: perhaps@yes.no http://maybes.yes.no/perhaps/ All of the above is a product of either your or my imagination, and not official.
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