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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help With Pppd (FreeBSD 1.1)
Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:36:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3ek8gi$8uv@galaxy.ucr.edu>,
Kolin E. Hand <kehand@galaxy.ucr.edu> wrote:
>The problem is that when I break out of kermit and execute 
>
>	"pppd /dev/tty01 19200",
>
>the line drops.  

This is because your modem drops the line on DTR transitions, which
are exactly what occur when kermit or any other program closes the line!
You need to therefore not do the close in kermit (suspend it) or disable
DTR sensitivity in the modem.  Try AT&D0.

>The other item involves the remote IP address of the ppp-server...
>In my case, I believe that it is a Cisco router/terminal-server.  It reports
>to have an IP associated with its ethernet interface, but the net-administrator

Your provider has an IP address for the router.  You must ask them for this
address.  It WILL be the other end of the ppp link!

					Jordan