From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 13:41:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09433 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09426 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA27610 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:40:54 -0700 Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA07699 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:40:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607152040.QAA07699@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: ppp on 2.2-960612-SNAP To: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:40:54 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am using iijppp with dial-on-demand. The connection comes up up to a dozen times a day. Once every couple of days ppp gets itself into a state where this appears in the log file: 07-15 16:33:09 [7084] ** 1 Too many ECHO packets are lost. ** This message is raised immediately after packet mode is entered, and causes the link to drop. The modem is immediately re-dialed, and the same cycle repeats until I kill the ppp program. Re-starting ppp clears the problem. What does this mean? Is there any way of clearing the problem without killing ppp? John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key