How to resume the connection?

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:50:19AM +0700, Strong wrote:
> Sometimes my modem brakes up the connection, i don't know how to resume
> it.
> I establish it with ifup-ppp and brake with ifdown-ppp. But when this
> break up happens ifup-ppp is still in the RAM and on ifdown-ppp does not
> obey. On kill i see ifup-ppp <defunct> - at ps -A. kill -9 doesn't help.
> Only by rebooting the system it helps. How to solve?
> After connection has been broken i see the following
> in /var/log/messages:
> Aug 18 01:35:43 STNhome kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 4
> Aug 18 01:35:43 STNhome pppd[3106]: Modem hangup
> Aug 18 01:35:43 STNhome pppd[3106]: Connection terminated.
> Aug 18 01:35:43 STNhome pppd[3106]: Connect time 1.1 minutes.
> Aug 18 01:35:43 STNhome pppd[3106]: Sent 7816 bytes, received 55876
> bytes.
As usual I am confused. The above lines say the connection is
terminated and Modem has hung up. Exactly what tells you that the
ifdown did not work.
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Aaron Konstam
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