Weird PPP trouble

[dsnyder at dsnyder.mindspring.com (David C. Snyder)]

Hello,

Joe Knapka wrote:
>  Maybe someone can shed light on the strange behavior I am
>  experiencing with PPP. The symptom is that sometimes
>  after pppd is killed, nothing can subsequently open the
>  serial port it used -- unless the open call is
>  non-blocking, in which case everything works fine.

It sounds like you left out "modem" in your /etc/ppp/options file.
See the man page for pppd for more info.

-- David
   dsnyder at mindspring.com