From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 27 23:51:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15638 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15611 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from pilot.physics.adelaide.edu.au (pilot [129.127.36.15]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id QAA06383; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:20:12 +0930 (CST) Received: by pilot.physics.adelaide.edu.au (5.61+IDA+MU/UA-5.23) id AA15809; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:13:41 +0930 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:13:41 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@pilot To: "Jan B. Koum " Cc: ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp driving me nuts In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > I think ppp has built in timeout if no packets go over the > network: > ppp ON rome> show timeout > Idle Timer: 180 secs LQR Timer: 30 secs Retry Timer: 3 secs > ppp ON rome> I seem to recall that theres a 3 minute idle timeout which cannot be overridden if you start the ppp session from interactive mode. I often find that my PPP session does not start packet mode automatically when I connect (but sometimes does), so I need to quit, restart, go to term mode (it won't let me just go straight to term mode without restarting) and do a ~p to trigger it. I've also found a lot of 'silent' dropouts (nothing in the logs, and the ppp driver does not seem to detect the line being down: it continues to send packets to the modem as shown by the transmission status lights). At other times I've been getting lots of repeated dropouts due to data errors (logged, which I can hunt around for and send in if required), but if I reconnect straight away using pppd I never have problems (I guess either pppd is much more forgiving of stuff like noise on the modem line, or ppp has a small bug) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message