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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd process doesn't die! Date: 15 Sep 1995 16:06:03 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <43c89b$dor@news.bu.edu> References: <439e1b$qdq@maui.cc.odu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (Thu, 14 Sep 95 14:22:08 GMT) honorable Jonathan Sturges, residing at jds100s@bosco.cc.odu.edu wrote: |Hi, |I've encountered another problem with pppd (under FreeBSD 2.0.5-950622 SNAP). |It seems that when I attempt to close the connection that pppd doesn't release | the serial port and exit. |If I attempt to close the PPP link, and then call right back, the modem |answers, but you get nothing... no prompts (so getty doesn't seem to have been |re-launched) and no response to anything you type. If I telnet to the machine |from somewhere else, the pppd process is still going, and it's a "runaway," |chewing up lots of CPU cycles. Yes, I noticed something similar. Although, I can not say that it does not go away at all, but it (pppd) is definetly staying a long time sometimes. Also, I noticed, that it may well stay for hours, after connection was in- terrupted. This might be reasonable for network cards software, but not for modems -- it takes much more then just pluging the cable back into modem to establish connection. -mi -- Your FAULT!!! Core dumped