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From: boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner)
Subject: Re: modem hangup problem with PPP
Originator: boyd@worf.cet.austin.ibm.com
Message-ID: <CEsH15.FD1@austin.ibm.com>
Sender: boyd@austin.ibm.com ()
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 14:46:17 GMT
Reply-To: boyd@austin.ibm.com
References:  <29aed4$r0r@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: IBM Austin
Keywords: PPP, SLIP, unhappy camper
Lines: 22


In article <29aed4$r0r@agate.berkeley.edu>, stas@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Stan Malyshev) writes:
> 1.
> 
> '/usr/libexec/pppd /dev/sio01'  hangs up the modem immediately upon
> being run, and the following message gets echoed:
> 
> Oct  9 17:37:44 budo pppd[421]: Using interface ppp0
> Oct  9 17:37:44 budo pppd[421]: write
> Oct  9 17:37:44 budo pppd[421]: write
> 
> 
> I'd recompiled the kernel with 'pseudo-device   ppp', and  tip and SLIP
> seem to work allright.  What's wrong with PPP?


It hangs up becuase the code drops DTR if you use other than the default line.
It assumes you are dialing out and hangs up the modem.

I hear that ppp is broken on EPSILON.

Boyd