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

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Well, I do find it a privilege to chat with you.  Am sure you are extremely sought
after for one, and I see your name all over. . . so I do feel privileged to have had
a response from you.

Briefly, digiboard was available and we tried to place it into a machine.  Older
machine was running with a cyclades board.  We ended up yanking the cyclades board
from the running machine, had about 4 hours of downtime, and brought up the new
machine.  So the digiboard is not important now, but, I understand your instructions
below and will follow them when the digiboard comes into play again.

Might I ask a side issue with ppp?  If you do not have time, please ignore this
query.  But thought to ask anyway.

Now that we have everything working, including PAP, we see that when we list 'who' on
our loder Slackware machine we could see the username associated with the port.  Now
we see an   a_ppp    for each dialup user.  Can you aim me towards a HOW-To that will
let use change this so we can associate a name with the port instead of the   a_ppp?

Again, I apreciate your response more than you realize, especially since you are
quite well known.  I met Linus Torvolds last Monday and feel very privileged to meet,
even electronically, those like you and Linus who have made this who effort grow.  I
was about to get out of this medium and Linux drew me back, thankx to the great
support the Linux community provides. . .

Again, tx for your time. . . I will follow your information below for the digiboard,
learn it, and then pass along my knowledge to others. . .

david hughes




> > Thank you *very* much for your response.  It appears it is indeed the digiboard
> > that is not acting properly.
>
> Might be...
>
> > I will verify the &C1 is set.
>
> ... but that part is easy.  There are some small "gadgets" that can be
> plugged in the RS232 cable between modem and digiboard, and that will show
> you the state of each line (red/green LEDs).  With that, you should be
> able to observe whether the modem is raising and lowering DCD properly.
>
> If that works, but a hangup is still not signalled, you could check the
> Linux side - in the mgetty/tools/ directory, you find a program called
> "ltest" that will show the status lines on the serial port.
>
> Run it like this:
>
> $ ltest -m 100 -d /dev/tty<name>
>
> and it will display all changes.
>
> > I feel privileged to receive a response from
> > Mr. Gert Doering of such great fame. . .
>
> No need for that.  ;-)
>
> gert
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