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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP Stuff.
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 03:01:12 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <ED2Ats.3sI@nonexistent.com>,
Andre Chang <wkchang@nyct.net> writes:
> Hello,
> I'm running a FBSD 2.2-stable machine and I finally got the ppp
> options to work. I have it set up so that the machine (FBSD Box) which
> is holding the dedicated connection to my ISP, dials on boot-up, This
> works well.
> My concern is that when I reboot the machine, control is not surrendered
> for the modem. i.e. the line is still open or the modem dosen't reset or
> reinatialized by the boot process. I'd like to know if there is
> something that I can do to remedy this?.
[.....]
Try the latest version from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. There's
a "set hangup" that will allow you to "ATZ" your modem before it's
closed compliments of peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much), and
some improvements to the way SIGHUP/SIGINT are handled.
> -- Andre.
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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