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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp/hylafax confilct
Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:03:02 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4i4hp6$cp1@helena.MT.net>
References: <4hbnnh$bqg@orm.southern.co.nz> <DntByv.6w@slugvine.demon.co.uk> <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz>,
Calvin I. Varney <calvin@southern.co.nz> wrote:
}John Stark (jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk) wrote:
}: >
}: >Does anyone know if it is possible to have ppp running and 
}: >still allow other processes to use of the modem?
}: 
}: I'd quite like to know the answer to this too.  I have tried running
}: faxgetty on /dev/ttyd1 and ppp on /dev/cuaa1.  The impression I got from
}: the documentation was that causing ppp to dial the ISP would snatch the
}: serial port from Hylafax temporarily.  What I actually observed was that
}: ppp hung indefinitely when it tried opening the port.  If I got this working
}
}faxgetty and ppp are both working well for me, though I did give faxgetty cuaa0  
}(as is ppp) not ttyd0 by inserting the following line into /etc/ttys:
}
}cuaa0  "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0"   dialup on
}
}Its just sendfax that has me stumped, have actually found that as soon as i invoke 
}sendfax, ppp opens the connection to my isp, faxstat reports the modem busy and is 
}waiting for it to come free, ppp times out because of no activity and then faxq 
}will successfully deliver the fax.

Is faxgetty trying to do a DNS resolution of some kind?  Your best bet
would be to run tcpdump to see what kind of data is being sent out.


Nate
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