Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:18:11 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue Message-ID: <00db01c081a5$0841f0a0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101081246310.398-100000@bryden.apana.org.au> <20010109081844.A14318@itouchnz.itouch> <000a01c079b3$86b946d0$837e03cb@dougy>
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Finally got to the bottom of this ...... turned out to be some weird phone line issue even though the "experts" at Tel$tra kept claiming the line was OK. We are considering various broadband options at present & looks like DSL will be the most available setup in immediate future ...... hopefully it works better than the broken fourth world PSTN system we have here. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:42 AM Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue > Thanks for the response John > > The "ISP" in this case is a non-profit organization that provides access for > its members ..... I'm on both the state & federal management committees so I > get to mess around with anything that needs doing. The local "POP" runs > FreeBSD 4.1 ...... is there something that needs to be configured there to > stop this problem happening for other users as well, or is it necessary for > the "fix" you suggested to be applied to all FreeBSD client installations ?? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> > To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 5:18 AM > Subject: Re: ppp congestion issue > > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:53PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > > Are there any unreported issues with user-ppp in 4.2 RELEASE ?? > > > > > > Since building a 4.2 system I'm getting weirdness where the > > > permanent dialup link appears to lock maybe once per day, although it > > > doesn't disconnect. Sometimes only http / ftp is affected, but even then > > > its slowed considerably ... mostly all services die totally & the > machine > > > refuses to respond to keyboard commands. > > > > Some ISPs have a problem with the compression protocol used by ppp. > > You may try adding the following to the appropriate ISP entry: > > > > deny pred1 > > disable pred1 > > > > Cheers. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity > > -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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