Subject: Re: dialup modem speed
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/10/2000 08:42:31
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:19:56PM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Ditto except that I am seeing a problem at one site.  I have set them
> > up for PPP on demand which works fine but they also want to be able
> > to dial in.  I set up mgetty on the port but when pppd exits, mgetty
> > doesn't set up the modem again.  Any tricks to doing this?
> 
> Did you use the dialin and dialout devices ? mgetty should run on the dialin,
> pppd on demand on dialout.
> 
> Note, I never tried this myself :)

I have both using /dev/tty00. "lock" has to be among the pppd options, so
mgetty will know to back off when the port is in use.

fredb