From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 15:00:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA07973 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA07968 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01008; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:00:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:00:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: mbayles@h130.aone.net.au cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP Connection Questions In-Reply-To: <32CF4032.2E51@h130.aone.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 mbayles@h130.aone.net.au wrote: > I have finally got PPP to dial my ISP, modem connects, neg's an IP > address & then establishes a PPP connection. Then after a random amount > of time it hangs up. All I could figure out from the log is the message > "1 too many ECHO packets lost" Echo packets are periodically sent to make sure the connection is still live. My ISP (the UO) has a similar problem with spontaneous dropping. The only thing I can do is redial :( I'm using user mode PPP tho. Bad phone line quality may be contributing to this... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major