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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
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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
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