From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 22 09:08:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA13974 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA13968 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA06860 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:08:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: PM2e's Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:08:29 -0400 Message-ID: <6857.838051709@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I know someone who has a number (8 or 9) Portmaster 2e-30 machines which have a reliability problem. They are running 3.3.1 of the software and talking to a RADIUS server for authentication. It seems that after a week or so of uptime (servicing requests from 30 28k8 capable modems doing rlogin's, SLIP and PPP) that something happens (maybe memory becomes fragmented?) and that sometimes when someone goes to start PPP, they get thrown off during PPP negotiation. Has anyone else seen this? The PM2e's have 1Mb of RAM in them (the default) ... would it help to go to 4Mb or maybe 16Mb? Any other solutions? Thanks Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info