Re: pppd won't reset (or hang up) the modem

["Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Alexander Lobkovsky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don' think this came up before.  My ISP changed to a pap style
> authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
> guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '*  *
> password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file.  Now the modem does not
> hang up if SIGINT is sent to pppd (it worked before).
> 
> Is this a problem on my side or the ISP side?
> 
> I tried to manually reset the modem (or hang up) so that I can stick
> this command into a disconnect script, to no avail, what am
> I doing incorrectly? I tried:
> 

I'm afraid I can't help you very much but I seem to be having the exact
same problem.  I also cannot get pppd to hangup.  My ISP also uses pap.
Perhaps this will give someone out there a clue as to what's going on?

-- Jaldhar