Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 12:44:57 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> To: Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <19990711124457.A253@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <378770C2.CE5C0209@mail.wvnet.edu>; from Kenneth Legg on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:11:46PM -0400 References: <378770C2.CE5C0209@mail.wvnet.edu>
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On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:11:46PM -0400, Kenneth Legg wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 and I'm having trouble hooking to my ISP. The
> modem dials and seems to connect, but drops the connection with in a
> couple of minutes. This is my first attempt at connecting FreeBSD to an
> ISP so I'm sure there's many things I could be doing wrong. Here's the
> script I'm running form ppp.conf, the only things I've changed are the
> phone number, user name and password the rest is a exact copy.
>
> #################################################################
> #
> # PPP Sample Configuration File
> #
> # Written by Toshiharu OHNO
> #
> # $Id: ppp.conf.sample,v 1.5.2.12 1997/09/10 01:00:27 brian Exp $
> #
> #################################################################
>
> # Default setup. Always executed when PPP is invoked.
> #
> default:
> set device /dev/cuaa0
> set speed 115200
> set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0 OK-AT-OK
> \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
> ISP:
> set phone 1234567
> set login
> set authname foo
> set authkey far
> set timeout 120
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You're telling it to drop the line after only 2 minutes of inactivity.
Try increasing it to 300 or more.
HTH
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