From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 12:53:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17512 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail10.voicenet.com (mail10.voicenet.com [207.103.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA17472 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1017 invoked from network); 30 Sep 1997 19:52:17 -0000 Received: from rotary842-pri.voicenet.com (HELO athena.ferraro.net) (207.103.143.156) by mail10.voicenet.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 1997 19:52:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by athena.ferraro.net (8.8.7/ATHENA-8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00561; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:43:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:43:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Reply-To: Chris To: Brian Somers cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP problems In-Reply-To: <199709280358.EAA09830@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > Would you be able to use ``ktrace'' (use the -p switch to attach to > the running ppp) when this is happening ? I'd be interested to see > what ppp thinks it's doing at the time :-| > > Hmm, a kdump is definitely in order. You may want also to verify that > your routing table (netstat -rn) is the same when the link is working > as when it's not. I did a ktrace and kdump on ppp. Here is some (a small part) of the output. 22603 ppp CALL sigreturn(0xefbfd018) 22603 ppp RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN 22603 ppp CALL select(0x5,0xefbfd8e8,0xefbfd8c8,0xefbfd8a8,0) 22603 ppp PSIG SIGALRM caught handler=0x15310 mask=0x0 code=0x0 22603 ppp RET select -1 errno 4 Interrupted system call 22603 ppp CALL sigreturn(0xefbfd018) 22603 ppp RET sigreturn JUSTRETURN > Check the man page. It's controlled by sysctl (in /etc/ > syslogd.conf). Search for syslog in the man page and you'll find a > sample entry. > > If ppp completes building and installing, it suggests that this is > one of the things you may have to change :-) > > > > You can then find out if the traffic is actually going out or not. > > > Of course if you have an external modem, you can probably just look > > > at the TX light. > > > > I have an internal modem. > > Oh well :-| > > [.....] > > Thank you, > > > > Chris > > > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > >