Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:24:11 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: ben@rosengart.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp problems Message-ID: <199807191224.NAA05241@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 1998 18:25:20 EDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980716181643.12039A-100000@echonyc.com>
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> I'm having intermittent userland PPP problems with bleeding-edge
> current. I've seen this before, but it just happened twice in ten
> minutes, which is unusual.
>
> The symptom is that traffic across the PPP link stops cold, even though
> the routing tables are correct and the PPP program still seems to think
> the link is up (i.e. the prompt says "PPP", not "ppp"). I "down" the
> link and then type "dial", but nothing happens. If I quit PPP and
> restart it, everything works fine, at least until the problem recurs.
If you ``show timer'' a few times, are the times changing ? What
about enabling tcp diagnostics (set log [local] +tcp/ip) ? Is ppp
trying to send stuff out and is it receiving stuff ? Another
interesting piece of output is ``show mem'' - you can see how many
internal mbufs are currently allocated.
> Ben
>
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
--
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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