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Subject: Re: PPP works and is great! -- but it stalls after awhile
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Firstly look at /var/logs/ppp.log to see if any clues there about whats
happening.
If its a timeout problem like mine was, try dialling with "ppp -ddial <ISP>"
......
when I finally figured that switch out (after lots of help from contributors
to this
list) I got my BSD gateway to stay connected virtually indefinitely.
Apparently the
"-ddial" switch tells ppp to ignore any timeout settings



----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Martin <i_am_charles@yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 1:26 AM
Subject: PPP works and is great! -- but it stalls after awhile


> Well, thanks to finally cruising over to http://www.awfulhak.com, I got
> PPP up and running on my machine.  Anyone having trouble, just check
> out the ppp.conf on that site, there is something in there for you.
>
> Everything is great, in fact net response seems palpably better than on
> my windows os.  The fly in the ointment is that after some
> undeterminate amount of time the connection just stalls.  Netscape
> reports it as a stall in the status bar.
>
> I tried set log local async and translating the results of the last
> couple of read modems, but it's just web content.  When I have set log
> local async and I try a ping from another xterm I can see the write
> modems appear.
>
> I have set
>
>  disable <all compression protocols>
>  deny <all compression protocols>
>
> in my ppp.conf.
>
> What can I do to increase the reliabilty of my PPP connection?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charles
>
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