Mgetty and linedrops <what it can do for you>

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Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> 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
 Thanks for the reply, ill get my another modem and give it a shot.
Bye

Daryl
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