From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 3 19:02:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09180 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09145 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.5]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00922; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:42:00 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dev.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA38314; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:42:00 GMT (envelope-from brian@dev.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199812040142.BAA38314@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eric Hake cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Fouled connections? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:53:02 PST." <4.1.19981130153915.00925330@clean.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 01:42:00 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Greetings! > > I'm having trouble with my user ppp installation for some reason... > > 1) I can get it to connect just fine with the following line: > > ppp -alias -auto pmdemand > > 2) Once I am connected, I can transfer from each of the machines on my > 'mini-network', and it all works great -- just like it is supposed to. > > 3) After anywhere from 5 - 25 minutes later, the connection seems to foul > up -- leaving the modem connected, but not allowing any data to flow from > my side to the ISP... > > 4) If I kill the connection and restart it, I go back to step one until it > fouls up again... > > Here's my 'ppp.conf' file: > > default: > set log Phase Chat Connect Carrier LCP IPCP CCP tun command > set device /dev/cuaa0 > set speed 115200 > disable lqr > deny lqr [.....] Try enabling lqr instead. It'll allow ppp to detect the dead link. The only thing that can really be done is to get your ISP to tell you why their ppp implementation is choking. It's possible that there's a problem with user-ppp, but nobody that's reported this sort of problem has been able to get a log from the peer :-( -- 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