From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 17: 7:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2272137B417 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE632B6B2; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:06:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 979A187A; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:06:09 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:06:09 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Morten Gulbrandsen Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Internet connection goes up and down, again and again Message-ID: <20011221120609.L722@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Morten Gulbrandsen , Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <01122101170303.00415@earth..> <20011221112314.S724@k7.mavetju.org> <01122102001704.00415@earth..> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01122102001704.00415@earth..>; from morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:48:02AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:48:02AM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, you wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:14:16AM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: > > > Before I start to investigate, > > > is this Normal ? > > > > > > Why ? > > > > > > > > > su-2.04# ppp > > > Working in interactive mode > > > Using interface: tun0 > > > ppp ON earth> dial > > > ppp ON earth> > > > Ppp ON earth> > > > PPp ON earth> > > > PPP ON earth> > > > ppp ON earth> > > > > Is this immediatly or is this after a couple of minutes/hours/days? > > Periodically, in intervalls of 15 min or so, Can this be because of idleness and absence of traffic? If you start a periodic ping to a random host (every minute or something), does the link stay up then? > su-2.04# ppp -ddial > Working in ddial mode > Using interface: tun0 > su-2.04# > > It seems to be stable online, but I have to find out the best way to stop it. killall ppp > Oh, this is interesting, in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ? yups. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message