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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!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!melbourne.DIALix.oz.au!seeware!news From: mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Subject: Re: Kermit and ppp... Sender: news@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Charlie Root) Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost Organization: SeeWare Software Message-ID: <DHE2C7.1Cu@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <DGp99H.587@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <469gi8$fce@helena.mt.net> <469qcq$rf9@yangtze.cs.umd.edu> <DGxA5J.1oM@seeware.dialix.oz.au> <470bv0$150@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 23:52:54 GMT Lines: 30 In article <470bv0$150@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote: > >>(Note that you will need to tell your modem not to hangup when kermit >>exits - I think that it is AT&D0) > >Don't do this. > >A modem on a Unix box should do the deepest reset that is configurable >when DTR drops. (Some Modems, e.g. Hayes, allow for a full reset, >others can only be convinced to drop the line.) > Fair enough, only problem is that I have never been able to get kermit to dial and then pppd to pick up quick enough so that the line hasn't dropped before pppd starts. I should add that in my script to bring the connection down I send a AT&D2 to the modem to disable this feature again. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+