From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:22:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14449 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:22:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14414 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:21:51 -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 AAA16843; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:47:15 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199802270047.AAA16843@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: spork cc: Doug White , fbsdqs Subject: Re: PPP link terminated unexpectedly. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:38:53 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 00:47:15 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello. > > I have my idle timeout at 0, and I was actually on the web > transfering data when it happened. I keep a ping and tcpdump going so I > can tell how my connection is doing, and so timeout should not be a > problem. My ISP does not have session limits, and I have been on for much > longer before. Wierd... It could have been a glitch on the phone line. There should be a modem register that controls how long a loss of carrier constitutes a line drop... you may want to raise your default to overcome possible noise on the line. Call waiting is another good way of making your modem think it's time to hang up :-) > -Spike Gronim > sporkl@dti.net > > "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good." > --The Computer Contradictionary, Second Edition -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message