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- From: bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.linux.networking
- Subject: Re: USR 28.8 *not* disconnecting when connection lost.
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 15:03:47 GMT
- Organization: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Message-ID: <4et94j$96s@montespan.pasteur.fr>
- References: <86ivhtvbms.fsf@janus.csres.utexas.edu> <4ep0i9$22dg@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <4equ0l$64i@montespan.pasteur.fr> <4erd76$25l2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4erd76$25l2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>, davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
-
- > You contradict yourself in two paragraphs. You state that I'm
- > completely wrong about it being a Linux problem rather than a modem
-
- No. You said "Sorry, one of the rare problems to blame on Linux rather
- than USR," and I thought it implied you mean it is a general Linux
- problem. It's not a Linux problem, it's a Linux setup problem. Is it
- clearer?
-
- > I fail to see how -detach changes anything, if pppd doesn't
- > recognise the drop in DSR. Since getty isn't running after login I
-
- If you don't say '-detach', the pppd will detach itself from the terminal.
- Even if the modem, cables and /dev/tty are properly setup, pppd will
- not receive the hangup signal.
-
- > don't see a problem there, but I've had this with uuget and agetty.
- > The hupcl causes an interrupt when the line drops, I suspect that
- > for some reason pppd isn't polling for that.
-
- pppd is not polling. It uses signals. See above at least one reason
- why the signal might be lost.
-
-