From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 21 12:00:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13996 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dream.future.net (root@future.net [204.130.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13952 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 11:59:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dream.future.net (tomthai@future.net [204.130.134.1]) by dream.future.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA28638; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:00:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:00:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tom T. Thai" To: zoonie cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: carrier loss with cyclades? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, zoonie wrote: > i hate to tell you this but it can't be the modem init string because > the only thing that has changed is the port the modem is attached to. > plain serial port no problem, when the cyclades port is used then there is > a problem. it is possible that the phone company screwed something up but > i don't think that's it either. thanks.. then maybe it's the cylclade or the setup of pppd? > > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Tom T. Thai wrote: > > > check your modem init string and also check what the other modem is using > > at the other end. > > > > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, zoonie wrote: > > > > > i have a cyclades cyclom 8yo card installed on a 2.1.7 system and i seem > > > to be having a problem with line drops. at random times whether there is > > > activity on the lines or not the lines just drop and pppd logs the > > > following message: > > > > > > Jun 18 18:51:35 mail /kernel: ppp2: no carrier > > > > > > i know that i can set the modem to wait longer on loss of carrier in case > > > it is line noise and i'm going to try that but one of these modems was > > > attached to a plain old serial port before i got the cyclades card and > > > this never happened when it was on the serial port. so i really don't > > > think that setting the modem to wait longer for carrier is going to do > > > anything. does anybody have any ideas? thanks.... > > .............. .................................... Thomas T. Thai Infomedia Interactive Communications tom@iic.net TEL 612.376.9090 * FAX 612.376.9087