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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.pfc.forestry.ca!bcsystems!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!decwrl!hookup!swrinde!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!pencotts.demon.co.uk!arg Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: does kermit drop the line when exiting? Message-ID: <D3suDI.2G0@pencotts.demon.co.uk> From: arg@pencotts.demon.co.uk Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 19:34:29 GMT References: <paigenD3E73J.JGp@netcom.com> <3h76op$brp@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <3hdp7c$1p9@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Organization: NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd Lines: 27 Or better still run 'chat' or similar from within pppd, with somthing like: pppd connect 'chat -v -f chat.script' /dev/cua01 38400 When used like this, pppd opens the port and then passes the file descriptors as stdin/stdout to the "connect" program - in this case 'chat', but could be anything. This means that the port doesn't get closed between the dial script and the ppp starting up - hence no problems with DTR. A simple chat.script looks like: ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY "" ATDT12345678 CONNECT '' ogin:--ogin: myuserid ssword: mypass Even better still is the new user-mode ppp in the 2.0-950202-SNAP release, which has the easiest user interface to get up and running that I have ever come across. Unfortunately, although I can get it up and connected, (ping, traceroute etc working fine), as soon as I try to send TCP packets my PC spontaneously reboots (not even a kernel panic - it just reboots!). Anyone else got further than this? andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk