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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.ppp:7491 comp.os.386bsd.questions:15686 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help With Pppd (FreeBSD 1.1) Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:36:15 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3em1rv$b4g@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ek8gi$8uv@galaxy.ucr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3ek8gi$8uv@galaxy.ucr.edu>, Kolin E. Hand <kehand@galaxy.ucr.edu> wrote: >The problem is that when I break out of kermit and execute > > "pppd /dev/tty01 19200", > >the line drops. This is because your modem drops the line on DTR transitions, which are exactly what occur when kermit or any other program closes the line! You need to therefore not do the close in kermit (suspend it) or disable DTR sensitivity in the modem. Try AT&D0. >The other item involves the remote IP address of the ppp-server... >In my case, I believe that it is a Cisco router/terminal-server. It reports >to have an IP associated with its ethernet interface, but the net-administrator Your provider has an IP address for the router. You must ask them for this address. It WILL be the other end of the ppp link! Jordan