Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:44:31 +0100 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: craig@hotmix.com.au Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions List'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Flakey PPP link Message-ID: <362C5B7F.AD2EBE82@ukonline.co.uk> References: <000401bdfc0c$9d7d65d0$0a1e21cb@superbruce.hotmix.com.au>
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> Craig Beasland wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have been running a 64K connection to my ISP for about three > months now, I recently upgraded to 128K and my link is all of a > sudden quite Flakey. I am using an external ISDN modem and the link > just goes down every now and then. I cannot seem to find a reason > for it, it is not a time or data event that makes it go down because > it happens when there is no data and again later when therre is > stacks of data going through the link. > > The only unusual thing I get are HDLC errors in the log file (I am > not even sure what a HDLC error is :-), but the log just says > Carrier Lost and then reconnection details. I can include a section > of the log file if it will help but I didn't want to fill the list > with it. > > Any help greatly appreciated, > craig Check that your ISP FULLY supports ISDN channel-bonding (both lines together). If they don't, you will find you get dropped when the second line comes up (personal experience of this). Also, even if your ISP claims to support channel-bonding, they may not do so fully. This can give rise to intermittent failures (again personal experience). If the second is true, you may find (as I did) that it is worse at certain times of the day. A pain in the arse here as I pay a minimum connection charge, i.e. when I reconnect continuously the pay meter just spins away ........ Hope this helps, Chris R. -- [ Christopher Raven [ E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk [ ICQ: 2254369 [ To err is human, to power is FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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