Subject: Re: pppd fixed in 1.5?
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/2000 18:27:07
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:57:05PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> According to Ignatios Souvatzis:
> >
> >Thats not pppd that gets blocked. Thats your modem -- tty device -- connection
> >that fails to transmit the "hangup" signal.

well, actually, could be _their_ modem-ttydevice-connection, that fails to
signal the remote modem that the other side hung up or got blocked or 
whatever.

Anyway, its not trivial to fix this, as the _data_ packets don't pass
out of the kernel to the pppd; only LCP and IPCP etc. do.

Regards,
	-is