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- From: ml@sixpack.wustl.edu (Matt Lundberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.linux.networking
- Subject: Re: USR 28.8 *not* disconnecting when connection lost.
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 14:12:44 -0600
- Organization: Life's too short to drink cheap beer
- Message-ID: <4er6rs$23r@sixpack.wustl.edu>
- References: <86ivhtvbms.fsf@janus.csres.utexas.edu> <4ep0i9$22dg@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4ep0i9$22dg@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>,
- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
- :In article <86ivhtvbms.fsf@janus.csres.utexas.edu>,
- :Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
- :|
- :|
- :| I've had a problem with my modem, ppp, and detecting disconnections
- :| for quite some time now, and I have been completely unable to resolve
- :| the problem. I thought I'd bring it up now in case anyone had fresh
- :| ideas. Feel free to direct me to a more appropriate location if
- :| warranted. It's a linux system.
- :
- :Sorry, one of the rare problems to blame on Linux rather than USR,
- :the pppd doesn't have a clue when the line drops. Um, try setting
- :"hupcl" before starting the daemon and see if that fixes it. The
- :problem seems to persist up through Slackware 3.0.
-
- I don't have this problem. I have a Sportster 28.8 modem,
- and have used both ppp-2.1.2d and ppp-2.2.0?.
-
- Make sure that the modem drops DTR when the carrier is lost,
- and give pppd the "modem" option.
- --
- Matt Lundberg ml@sixpack.wustl.edu
-