From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 06:44:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10832 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (root@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10603 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 06:42:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id SAA08450; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:26:28 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:26:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Andrew Stevens cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: PPP Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk By default ppp has a timeout limit: ppp ON guildenstern> show timeout Idle Timer: 180 secs LQR Timer: 30 secs Retry Timer: 3 secs You need to "man ppp" to see what timeouts you want to change and how to do it. Another thing is that your ISP might be timing out on idle connections to clear their lines. -- Yan On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Andrew Stevens wrote: >-- [ From: Andrew Stevens * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > >Greetings: > > I recently moved FreeBSD to a new computer (did a reinstall, only copied >motd and a few other files), and ever since the move, my modem has been >involuntarily disconnecting while I am on the internet. While I am on the >web or doing downloads, things work fine and I can be on for hours at a time >, but as soon as I do something which requires short, quick blips back and >forth between myself and another machine (in particular, checking my mail, >finger, ICQ), the modem disconnects. Any ideas what the problem might be? >I'm currently running FreeBSD 2.1.7 with the new, hacked version of ppp, >which was obtained from the FreeBSD site. > >Thanks in advance, > > > > >Andrew Stevens. >