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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Question re: tun0 and modems Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:19:40 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <325E739C.7A00@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32593932.41C67EA6@aristar.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > > 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 Hmmm. Is PPP still in the active procs list (ps ax)? If so, you'll need to kill it before you can restart. Otherwise, even if you can start a new instance, the old one still has control of tun0 and the modem. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |