From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 21 10:01:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA09654 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rustler.gwc.cccd.edu (rustler.gwc.cccd.edu [159.115.129.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA09637 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeer (mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu [159.115.129.100]) by rustler.gwc.cccd.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA05985; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:00:59 -0800 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970221180546.00bb979c@rustler.gwc.cccd.edu> X-Sender: mpeer@rustler.gwc.cccd.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:05:46 -0800 To: admin@lannon.qc.ca (Real Melancon) From: Michael Peer Subject: Re: Users getting disconnected... Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:33 PM 2/20/97 -0500, you wrote: > > Hi to all of you. I have a stupid question, but we recently started > a brand new ISP, and some of our users are complaining about getting > disconnected from time to time, without any warning. > > [... snip ...] > > Any tips, advices, informations, files to check, good sites, etc... > would be really appreciated. You guys probably had these kind of > problems before. > > Thanks again. > As a horror story, at work we switched from an analog PBX switch to an all digital system about 6 months ago. Voice was fine, but couldn't hold a data connection to save your life. Finally a telephone.god was brought in and he found that our now digital trunk line was not looping back clock at telco end, so it had a frame error every 192 bits. He switched the card, and now it works fine. Amazing we did nothing at our end, but suddenly instead of wishing for a 5 minute connection to hold, I have been on for 5 to 6 hours with no drop off. Just one mans story. > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Salutations :-) >Rial Melangon - Programmeur/Analyste >Internet L`Annonciation (http://lannon.qc.ca) >Developpement de sites Web. Intranets. Formation. >------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Peer Data Electronics Technician I Golden West College Computer Services Center 15744 Goldenwest St. Huntington Beach, CA 92647 e-mail: mpeer@gwc.cccd.edu Voice: (714)892-7711 ext 55067 WWW: http://pioneer.gwc.cccd.edu FAX: (714)895-8980