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From: Enoch Wu <wue@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Almost in PPP land but something is odd.
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Enoch Wu <wue@eskimo.com> wrote:
> 
> > SIGHUP
> > PPP terminated
> >
> > At that same instant, I noticed the modem dropped the DTR light.  It is
> > as if PPP was telling the modem to drop DTR signal. Why ?
> 
> No, ``SIGHUP'' means the modem dropped carrier.

But DTR is a control signal issued from the CPU.  DTR signal always
flows from
CPU to modem.


> 
> Try adding `` set openmode active'' in your ppp.conf file.

After adding this I was able to get a PPP connection on 2 out of 5 days.
I verified
that my ISP's system was OK by means of Win95 dial-up networking.  This
rules out
ISP as a source of problem. (perhaps) 

On the 2 successfull connections "tail -f /var/log/ppp.log" showed many
negotiations
on the TCP/IP (I set debug to chat lcp phase TCP/IP). I was able to
telnet, use lynx
and even ftp netscape 3.01 to my computer.  

I am going to try a real SLIP/PPP connection as soon as my ISP set me up
for that.

-EW