>From: Peter Simons <simons@petium.rhein.de>
>Date: 21 Nov 1996 02:41:25 +0100

>What astonishes me is that the modem recognizes the hangup just fine,
>but pppd doesn't receive a HANGUP or any other signal when the line
>drops. I thought that the "local" option might be the source of the
>problem, but without "local", pppd can't open the tty at all.

Try using "modem" instead of "local".
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