Mgetty and linedrops <what it can do for you>

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>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

 Gert> 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...

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

 Gert> It's not too uncommon for el-cheapo modems to easily drop
 Gert> connection if the phone line is a bit noisy. But since you
 Gert> didn't offer any data about the kind of modem you are using,
 Gert> 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?

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

Another possibility could be lockfile confusion, so that mgetty does
not see the lockfile set by the other process, thinks the line is
available, and resets everything.

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