PPP/Mgetty hang-up problem HELP Please????

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Hi,

On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 09:13:06PM +0000, Bill Unruh wrote:
> Well, this has nothing to do with mgetty. mgetty stays out of the way
> until ppp quits (usually by looking at teh lock file, but also if it
> initiated the pppd, waiting for pppd to exit) So if pppd stays running
> mgetty quite properly waits.

Actually, there *is no mgetty* while an incoming call is active.  Mgetty
will be restarted by init as soon as PPP exits.

> One thing to try is to set up the DTR line so that a DTR drop
> reinitalises the modem. (&D3 on my modem). The real problem is that the
> modem is not signalling back to pppd that there is nothing there. pppd
> does not see any carrier ever-- it just gets bytes from teh serial port.
> and if it gets no bytes for a while, that could just be the otehr end
> not sending them. 

Make sure the modem is set to AT&C1 (signal carrier to the host) and that
PPP will exit after a timeout (something with lcp-echo-...).

gert
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