From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 7:23: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruraltel.net (mail1.ruraltel.net [24.225.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A51537B67D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from darryl ([24.225.30.244]) by mail.ruraltel.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-68608U15000L4100S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:22:00 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Darryl Hoar" To: Subject: ppp problems. Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:25:02 -0600 Message-ID: <003401c08b99$fd143130$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I have 4.0-release installed on a new box (K6-2 500, 128MB RAM). I have an external US Robotics 56K modem attached to the new box. The phone line runs through the corporate phone system. (IE, dial 9 to get an outside line). I use userland ppp to manage the nat and the link (ie, ppp -auto -nat ....). This works fine most of the time. here's the problem: Several times during the day the modem link gets in an inconsistent state. That is, the lights show its connected, the transmit & receive lights flash, but when I log into the box and try to ping an internet ip address, it just hangs. IE, no response. Sometime I only need to power cycle the modem to clear the condition. Sometimes, I must manually stop/restart ppp. I need this to work "hands free" most of the time. Anyone got any ideas ? I have already looked at trying to test with a dedicated, ie not through the phone system, line. but due to the wiring this would be a major undertaking. So if there are any other trouble shooting steps, I want to take them first. BTW: ppp log file shows no errors. thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message