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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!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp/hylafax confilct Date: 20 Mar 1996 11:30:34 -0000 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4ioq8q$b7@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4hbnnh$bqg@orm.southern.co.nz> <DntByv.6w@slugvine.demon.co.uk> <4hrlml$bnr@orm.southern.co.nz> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. : Why ppp makes a conection first i can't figure out.... Try 'tcpdump -i tun0'. You should see the packet that kicks ppp. It's probably a DNS request that can be fixed by changing the order in /etc/host.conf and adding the host to /etc/hosts. : calvin. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....