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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: Is PPP recoverable after reset???
- Date: 29 Mar 96 13:10:37 +0500
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- On or about 26-Mar-96 21:29:52 Bill Near typed the following words about "Re:
- Is PPP recoverable after reset???". My reply is thus...
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- Hi Bill,
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- BN> On 25 Mar 1996 23:07:31 GMT, Pacarana articulated:
- BN> <> > I don't think that will always work! I've had two service
- BN> providers so
- BN> <> > far
- BN> <> >that use PPP, and both of them drop carrier as soon as the ppp.device
- BN> tries
- BN> <> >to re-negotiate the link.
- BN> <> Evenif they don't drop carrier, it still doesn't seem to work. It
- BN> tries to
- BN> <> send out all the login and waiting info andjust gets stuck.
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- BN> I had a system crash yesterday and the modem stayed online.
- BN> After a reboot, I executed startnet and the whole connection
- BN> was up and running without a redial. I am using AmiTCP 4.2
- BN> and PPP 1.45 registered.
-
- I use AmiTCP 4.2 and PPP 1.45 registered also and this works fine. However,
- with AmoTCP 4.0demo things are a bit different. The default AmiTCP 4.2
- starenet script uses BOOTP to configure the ppp.device. This works fine
- using AT&D0 and CD in the ppp0.config file and then running startnet again
- the connection is renegotiated. . The startnet script actually creates the
- ENV:sana2/ppp0.config file from the defaults you set during the software
- installation when the script is run. With AmiTCP 4.0demo the ppp0.config file
- resides in env- archive: and is copied to ENV: on bootup. The startnet script
- does not use BOOTP (it is not even in the 4.0 archive) it simply uses the
- online command to put the ppp.device on line. If you have dynamic connection
- it seems the online command (ppp.device) can't reconnect because it doesn't
- know the IP addresses. When the startnet script is first run and the
- connection negotiated there are two environment variables created--
- ppp0IPLocal and ppp0IPRemote -- that contain the current IP addresses. I added
- two lines to the end of my V4.0demo startnet script to copy these two
- environment variables to env-archive: when the connection is first made. Then
- after a reboot they are in ENV: and a simple online command will reconnect
- you.
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