Re: PPPD hangups

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 09:44:46AM -0500, J T Gill wrote:
> SOmeone had asked about pppd exiting on a hangup a couple of weeks ago,
> and I deleted the response to that, can someone repost it.  Every so often
> I'll get up to go get a drink, or sometimes just in the middle of a session
> my ISP will hang up, and I can't restart pppd, because the old one keeps
> running.

Sounds like either:

- the clocal bit is set in the tty (could be a flag in /etc/ttys, or an option
to pppd)

- your modem is not configured to let DCD go down when the carrier is lost.

        -is