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From: "Craig Nuttall" <craign@mdc.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Modem disconnects...
Date: 9 Aug 1996 01:07:07 GMT
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Igor Boguslavsky <igor@icgroup.net> wrote in article
<3209132A.237C228A@icgroup.net>...
> Does anybody experiencing immediate disconnect problem with
BSDi v2.1 +
> Digi PC/Xem boards?

Are you sure its not the modem?  We have two Digiboard 16 xem's
with 6 concentrators on BSDI v2.0.  For modems we run USR
Sportsters, Cardinal, and Practical Peripherals.  We have 96 all
togethor.  We have experienced this problem, but it has been
very infrequent and have never doubted that it was the modem.

I talked to our Network Admin, and he said that WE DID
experience this problem in the beginning, when people would try
to connect using PPP.  To solve it, we put a sleep in the
/etc/netscripts/Dialin.login file.  Here's how it ends....

#Add this to see if this helps.  If it is up then delete it.
route delete $REMOTE
sleep 1
ifconfig $INTERFACE inet $LOCAL $REMOTE $* && exit 0

exit 1

...and he also added the route.  He thinks that supposedly 2.1
was going to take care of this, and is not even sure if 2.1 runs
the same PPP software.

-Craig
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