Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > wb2oyc wrote:
> > 
> > >      Make sure there is no defaultroute before making the PPP connect.
> > > The script will attempt to set the PPP link and make it the default.
> > 
> > Ok, I'll look into it.
> 
> That's not it. You do need to not have a default route around, but the
> default route won't make chat die w/ a SIGTERM. My i386 usually has a
> defaultroute pointing at my IIsi, so when I fire up ppp, the default route
> doesn't get set right.
> 
> The "local" business was a problem when the most-recent version of PPP was
> merged in. It was fixed for 1.3.

Actually, the solution seemed to have been to change the line in
/etc/ppp/ppp-connect from:

stty clocal

to:

stty /dev/tty01 clocal

With the previous one, it didn't seem to be setting clocal on the proper
tty, so chat would never interact with the modem.
 
> > > There can be only one.
> 
> No, that should have been, "There should only have been one," refering to
> the quality of Highlander II. :-)

Oh, I don't know, the 3rd one wasn't all that bad, certainly not much
cheesier than the first ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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