From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 12:17:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18392 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org ([158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18360 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20214; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:57:45 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801141957.TAA20214@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andrew Stevens cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: PPP Problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:56:49 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:57:45 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > -- [ From: Andrew Stevens * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Greetings: > > I recently moved FreeBSD to a new computer (did a reinstall, only copied > motd and a few other files), and ever since the move, my modem has been > involuntarily disconnecting while I am on the internet. While I am on the > web or doing downloads, things work fine and I can be on for hours at a time > , but as soon as I do something which requires short, quick blips back and > forth between myself and another machine (in particular, checking my mail, > finger, ICQ), the modem disconnects. Any ideas what the problem might be? > I'm currently running FreeBSD 2.1.7 with the new, hacked version of ppp, > which was obtained from the FreeBSD site. > > Thanks in advance, Can you try installing the 970113 version. It now uses whatever libalias is available. After you install, if your problem persists, can you try removing /usr/lib/libalias.so.2.5, then restart ppp and see if the problem persists ? I'm just trying to narrow things down. > Andrew Stevens. Thanks. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....