Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 08:39:13 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: "Stan Brown" <stanb@netcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Re: ijppp hanging Message-ID: <199707070739.IAA19288@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jul 1997 09:32:40 EDT." <199707061332.GAA21638@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> After *months* of rock solid use of my FreeBSD as the gateway for my
> network tothe local ISP, and thus to the world. I Have developed a
> problem. I am runing 2.2-STABLE. uinsg user mode ppp, and a US R
> sporster 33.6, auto dialiang and alliasing. None of this has change
> since Christmas (well maybe the FreeBSD version, but even that hasn't
> changed recently, not even cvsuped in a month or so).
>
> What is happeneing is tha about once a day ppp is hanging while trying
> to connect. it is well and truly hung requiting a kill -9 to kill it.
> Wen I find thesystem in this mode ppp is using 90+ percent of the CPU.
> The TR and CS lights are on on the modem. the ppp log always indicates
> the exect same place in the chat script as follows:
>
>
> 07-06 00:12:03 [199] Phase: Dead
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Dial attempt 1
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Expecting
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] sending: AT+FCLASS=0&H1&I0&R2
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Expecting OK
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Wait for (5): OK --> OK
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] sending: ATE1Q0
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Expecting OK-AT-OK
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Wait for (5): OK --> OK
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Phone: 8530856
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] sending: ATDT8530856
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Expecting CONNECT
> 07-06 00:33:00 [199] Wait for (40): CONNECT --> CONNECT
> 07-06 00:33:24 [199] Expecting name>-\r-name>
> 07-06 00:33:24 [199] Wait for (5): name> --> name>
>
> What *has* changed is that I am calling a new phone number at the ISP.
> Among ohter things it does not issue anything after themodems connect
> untill I send a \r. The old number used to prompt for a username
> imediatly after connect. I have also heard others complain about lack
> of ring tone, and some strange fail to connect, or get busy tones.
Try sending the \r like this:
set login "TIMEOUT 15 login:-\\r-login: awfulhak word: \\P ocol: PPP HELLO"
My ISP sends login: password: and protocol: then says HELLO. If I don't
get the login: prompt after 15 seconds, I send a \r and wait again.
> Having said that it seems to me that whatever the ISP is doing, ijppp
> should not become hung in thisway. Should it not time out at this
> point? Is there any circumstabce under which it should *not* time out?
Try "set openmode active". This is now the default.
> --
> Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955
> Factory Automation Systems
> Atlanta Ga.
> --
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