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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: getty trouble???
Date: 2 Nov 1995 18:48:49 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Edouard CORREIA  <ded@magic.fr> wrote:

>I get some getty strange behavior configuring a modem dialin line for 
>remote access under BSDI 2.0.1.
>When I kill the getty process while the modem is no connected (no CD)
>the DTR brings down, then I have to reset the modem to make the 
>dialin line work fine again. So isn'it strange? I wonder...

Configure your modem to auto-reset on DTR drop.  (E.g., AT&D4 for a
ZyXEL modem.)
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]