From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 26 8:18:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C03155E0 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 08:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA79890; Wed, 26 May 1999 16:18:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02381; Wed, 26 May 1999 16:18:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199905261518.QAA02381@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Richard J Kuhns Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP problem + mailing list archive problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 09:26:44 CDT." <14156.1188.726396.700281@moran.grauel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:17:59 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, I'd hoped I'd be able to do a little more before bothering the list, > but... > > I'd last built world around the end of April, with no problems. I then > grew a fairly heavy workload, and so didn't get a chance to build world > again until 2 days ago (May 24). During that time, something changed with > ppp so it no longer works correctly for me (details shortly). > [.....] > May 25 11:02:53 moran ppp[3577]: tun0: LCP: deflink: Stopped timer expired > May 25 11:02:53 moran ppp[3577]: tun0: LCP: deflink: State change Stopped --> Closed This happens because the peer hasn't said anything in the five seconds you've been connected (``set openmode passive'' says to wait for the peer to start talking and ``set stopped 5'' says to bring the layer down if we find ourselves in the STOPPED state for 5 seconds). Your login script looks suspect - it's always dangerous to have a login script that sends your password and waits for no confirmation of success (or failure). Isn't there something you can ``expect'' ? Try increasing your ``set stopped'' value to (say) 20 and see if that helps. [.....] > Thanks... > > -- > Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com > PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ > 100 Sawmill Road x319 > Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message