Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:29:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Richard Stanaford <richard@nova.eri.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP connection "hanging" Message-ID: <199809281529.QAA04048@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:04:46 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980927143802.6787A-100000@nova.eri.net>
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> Now here is where it get really strange, to me. I can FTP all day. In
> fact, I did just that and transfered about 300Megs of files without a
> problem. I can also be connected via secure shell for hours at a time,
> doing mail and news. The only time it has "hung" so far is while I am
> "surfing the web" on the Win95 box. It just stops and if I let it sit
> there for about two minutes, the connection will automatically restart
> everything will again work. I dug through the ppp.log file and I saw a
> line referring to too many ECHO LQR packets lost at the time the
> connection was dropped and redialed. I do have Link Quality Reporting
> enabled and accepted in ppp.conf.
>
> Humm... anyone have any thoughts?
Sounds like the remote ppp is dying. You could *try* disabling tcp
extensions in /etc/rc.conf, but I suspect it won't help.
Another possibility (but don't hold your breath) is if you tried
disabling vj compression (``disable vj'' & ``deny vj''). This is
even more of an outside chance than disabling tcp extensions.
I suspect you'll have to hastle your ISP into enabling logging for
your connections 'till it happens again - they may then be able to
tell you why their side evaporated :-/
> Thanks a lot,
> -Richard.
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