From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 6 16:06:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06163 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from carriage.chesco.com (carriage.chesco.com [209.195.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06076 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bryan@chesco.com) Received: from bryan (mxhyp1x12.chesco.com [209.195.202.31]) by carriage.chesco.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA27325; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 19:06:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806062306.TAA27325@carriage.chesco.com> X-Sender: bryan@pop.chesco.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 19:13:48 -0400 To: spork From: Bryan Seltzer Subject: Re: ppp question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <199806050109.VAA11423@carriage.chesco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:43 PM 6/6/98 -0400, Spike Gronim wrote: >On Thu, 28 May 1998, Bryan Seltzer wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am new to this groups, so if this is being posted in the wrong group just >> point me in the correct direction. >> >> I am using an older system, 2.1.5 and have configured it on my tiny network >> in my home(3 puters). I have also managed with help and reading ALOT, to >> have it dial into my provider and connect and can ping the outside world. >> The problem I am having is when it connects, it will stay connected for >> about 2 mins or so and drop the connection. It's almost like there is some >> default setting somewhere that I have missed that tells it to disconnect at >> a certain time. Its always 2 mins or so even while I'm pinging the outside >> world. >> The system is a 486, the modem is a usr 28.8 set on com1 irq3. >> >> >> any clues will help >> >> Thanks >> Bryan Seltzer >> > >You are timing out. When you dial up, you should start a ping going, for >instance type "ping freebsd.org", and this will constanlty be >sending/recieving a small amount of data of the connection, preventing the >link from becoming idle and terminating. 8-) > > > > -Spike Gronim > spork@cncn.com > > > "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" > --Computer Contradictionary I have done this and it still times out, confusing.. bryan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message