Mgetty and linedrops <what it can do for you>

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Hi,

Daryl Lee wrote:
> Hiya whoever reads this,
> 
> After messing around i finally get mgetty to answer a dialup call
> and well..i can manually anyways start ppp...
> 
> What bothers me is whenver i dialup, within a couple minutes time
> it kicks me off...weather im in shell or using PPP. I figered it
> might be the modem on the computer im dialing in from, so i changed
> computers and it still did it...

Sounds like "cheap modems" or "poor line quality".

It's not too uncommon for el-cheapo modems to easily drop connection if
the phone line is a bit noisy. But since you didn't offer any data about
the kind of modem you are using, there is nothing we can comment on...

> Any reason why mgetty would wanna reset the modem or whatever its
> doing that would cause me to drop carrier?

Mgetty will do just plain nothing while you're logged in (there is no
mgetty process at that time!!!!!).

gert

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