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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kermit and ppp... Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:00:16 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <470bv0$150@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DGp99H.587@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <469gi8$fce@helena.mt.net> <469qcq$rf9@yangtze.cs.umd.edu> <DGxA5J.1oM@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote: >(Note that you will need to tell your modem not to hangup when kermit >exits - I think that it is AT&D0) Don't do this. A modem on a Unix box should do the deepest reset that is configurable when DTR drops. (Some Modems, e.g. Hayes, allow for a full reset, others can only be convinced to drop the line.) Working around software problems by tweaking the hardware is not the recommedable way to go. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)