ANN: ModemManager 1.18.4 released / Avoiding PPP

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 05:35 -0500, Peter Naulls wrote:
> On 1/17/22 2:06 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
>   own problems, but maybe not the ones you're worried about.
> > 
> > I haven't read the whole thread in detail, so forgive me if this
> > was
> > covered. Perhaps a way of tagging a modem/driver/whatever with
> > "never
> > use PPP" would be workable. Off by default of course.
> 
> If you like. Whatever is going to work for the general use case.
> 
> However, no matter how you finely tune it, no matter how you choose
> values,
> there's always a chance of detection failure (which is OK), but
> falling
> back to PPP is never going to be acceptable, certainly not in what
> I'm
> building.  I don't need to be debugging such situations in the field;
> there's no justification for it.

What's your desired error state when detection fails? Just mark the
whole modem as failed, and you'd have some custom logic to twiddle
modem power and/or reboot the machine?

or something else?

Dan

> 
> I'd prefer to pursue removing PPP dependency entirely as I'm doing;
> that saves space, and reduces complexity. Let me know if is going
> to be something that works for you.  I just wish I'd done this 6
> months ago; would have saved myself a lot of grief.
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