Mgetty and linedrops <what it can do for you>

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Hi,

Robert J. Brown wrote:
> >>>>> "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".
> 
> 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.

True. Maybe I misunderstood the question, I thought Daryl was talking
about dial-in into the mgetty machine (in that case, there is no possible
way for lock file confusion, as mgetty is not running).

gert

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