From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 16:52:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23635 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:52:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23624 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:52:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA16508; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:52:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:52:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: spork cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: Modem death In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > I have a US Robotics 56K X2 modem. every two through thirty > minutes my connection dies. The modem does not disconnect, but nothing at > goes up or down the line. It did this with Winbloze PPP, and I thought it > was software. It is now doing this with FBSD PPP. Try upgrading ppp to the one on http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/userppp.html and/or try running `disable lqr'. Massive modem errors will kill the lqr queries, and if they go away for too long a time ppp kills the connection. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major