From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 13:34:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27546 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:34:42 -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 NAA26557 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:26:24 -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 NAA27142; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:26:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Stevens cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: PPP Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Andrew Stevens wrote: > 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. Did you try disabling lqr? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major