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From: "Matthew A. Gessner" <mgessner@aristar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Question re: tun0 and modems
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:09:06 -0400
Organization: Aristar, Inc.
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Every now and then, ppp will toss its cookies and completely hang.
I can't give exact descriptions on what happens, simply because I have
NFI what I could be doing abnormal that would cause it to go nuts (but I
do have suspicions that my ISP is the problem).

Anyway, when I go to restart ppp, it tells me it can't find the tun0
device, and/or the modem is busy.

How can I get around either of these problems?  Can I close an open file
somehow?

TIA
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Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, <mgessner@aristar.com>
Aristar, Inc.
302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd.
Akron, OH 44333
Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961