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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mel.aone.net.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!mundoe!aris From: aris@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Aris Colp) Subject: modem on pppd server will not respond after client drops connection. Message-ID: <9525723.19651@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU (CS-Usenet) Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:40:28 GMT Lines: 41 Has anyone seen this, and know what I need to do to fix it? I dial into a FreeBSD machine, running PPP, from a NEXTSTEP machine. Most of the time everything works OK. Sometimes, the line goes down, and the NEXTSTEP machine redials. However the modem on the PPP server answers but the chat script fails - because I do not get a login/password session for the chat script to work. I then dial up to another connection, and telnet into the server machine running FreeBSD. There I can start kermit to see if the modem responds from the server. Under normal circumstances I can talk to the modem with AT commands. What I am finding is that kermit cannot talk to the modem at all. Powercycling the modem on the server does nothing. I think powercycling the server does fix the problem. However I cannot do this all the time, as there are other PPP/SLIP users on the server who would not appreciate this method. Someone mentioned that perhaps the other users are hogging the interupts for the particular serial interface (they share the interupt right?). My question is, what can I do (assuming that the modem is still in an OK state) to re-establish contact to the modem from the server? Powercycling *another* modem (that uses the same serial interface card) does let me access the modem. Any ideas? Any suggestions welcome! Ta, Aris Colp <apt@auswired.net> ... Aris Colp ....................................aris@maths.unimelb.edu.au ... Department of Mathematics ............................................. ... The University of Melbourne ........................................... ... Parkville 3052 Australia ..............................................