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From: gerlach@netcom.com (Matthew H. Gerlach)
Subject: Re: kermit and PPP
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The way to do it is to not exit kermit. Use the command "redirect pppd"
to give the modem session as stdin/stdout to pppd. It worked for me under
SunOS.
Matthew
In article <1997Sep14.222503.14410@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Joshua Pincus <froboz@cif.rochester.edu> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've got kermit performing my dialup stuff for a kernel-level PPP on
>a FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine. The problem is this: I need the kermit
>script to dial, respond to the login/password info, and then exit
>WITHOUT killing the modem connection so that pppd can talk to the
>/dev/cuaa2 serial port in kermit's place.
>
>How do I do this??? The quit command kills kermit and resets all the
>devices that kermit is talking to. How can I make kermit quit and
>give pppd ownership over /dev/cuaa2 without hanging up the line?
>
>Thanks,
>froboz@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu
>--
>/*
> -- DER UBERMENSCH!!!
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