Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 07:48:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk> Cc: Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <3788AEA0.16E3E645@3-cities.com> References: <378770C2.CE5C0209@mail.wvnet.edu> <19990711124457.A253@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:11:46PM -0400, Kenneth Legg wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.5 and I'm having trouble hooking to my ISP. The > > modem dials and seems to connect, but drops the connection with in a > > couple of minutes. This is my first attempt at connecting FreeBSD to an > > ISP so I'm sure there's many things I could be doing wrong. Here's the > > script I'm running form ppp.conf, the only things I've changed are the > > phone number, user name and password the rest is a exact copy. > > > > ################################################################# > > # > > # PPP Sample Configuration File > > # > > # Written by Toshiharu OHNO > > # > > # $Id: ppp.conf.sample,v 1.5.2.12 1997/09/10 01:00:27 brian Exp $ > > # > > ################################################################# > > > > # Default setup. Always executed when PPP is invoked. > > # > > default: > > set device /dev/cuaa0 > > set speed 115200 > > set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" ATE1Q0 OK-AT-OK > > \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" > > ISP: > > set phone 1234567 > > set login > > set authname foo > > set authkey far > > set timeout 120 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > You're telling it to drop the line after only 2 minutes of inactivity. > Try increasing it to 300 or more. What is really bad is that is what is in the ppp.conf.sample. If 120 is an unrealistic drop time, then the sample should have 300 in it. I consider non-realistic values in a sample as random numbers and I don't have much tolerance for samples made up from random numbers. I have hit a temporary impass with NT's NAT and have been giving serious consideration to switching to using my FreeBSD system to supply Internet services to my home network. It is little things like this that keep me from spending time on the effort. I figure that I can find out what is wrong with my NT system faster than I can find the little glitches that would make FreeBSD be a drop in replacement. Kent > > HTH > > -- > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov > _______________________________________________________________ > Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK > CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry > mailto:markov@globalnet.co.uk http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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