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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp/hylafax confilct Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:03:02 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4i4hp6$cp1@helena.MT.net> References: <4hbnnh$bqg@orm.southern.co.nz> <DntByv.6w@slugvine.demon.co.uk> <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz>, Calvin I. Varney <calvin@southern.co.nz> wrote: }John Stark (jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk) wrote: }: > }: >Does anyone know if it is possible to have ppp running and }: >still allow other processes to use of the modem? }: }: I'd quite like to know the answer to this too. I have tried running }: faxgetty on /dev/ttyd1 and ppp on /dev/cuaa1. The impression I got from }: the documentation was that causing ppp to dial the ISP would snatch the }: serial port from Hylafax temporarily. What I actually observed was that }: ppp hung indefinitely when it tried opening the port. If I got this working } }faxgetty and ppp are both working well for me, though I did give faxgetty cuaa0 }(as is ppp) not ttyd0 by inserting the following line into /etc/ttys: } }cuaa0 "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/cuaa0" dialup on } }Its just sendfax that has me stumped, have actually found that as soon as i invoke }sendfax, ppp opens the connection to my isp, faxstat reports the modem busy and is }waiting for it to come free, ppp times out because of no activity and then faxq }will successfully deliver the fax. Is faxgetty trying to do a DNS resolution of some kind? Your best bet would be to run tcpdump to see what kind of data is being sent out. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth