From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 04:30:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05941 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail3.svr.freeserve.net (mail3.svr.freeserve.net [194.152.65.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05933 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from modem-90.magnesium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.5.218] helo=ukonline.co.uk) by mail3.svr.freeserve.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05iplimit-2 #4) id 0zVZzI-00037Z-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:30:05 +0100 Message-ID: <362C7419.79EB2104@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:29:29 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: [Fwd: Flakey PPP link] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------DFD74C7293B884F6666A0BD9" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DFD74C7293B884F6666A0BD9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- [ Christopher Raven [ E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk [ ICQ: 2254369 [ To err is human, to power is FreeBSD --------------DFD74C7293B884F6666A0BD9 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Delivered-To: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk Received: (qmail 23695 invoked from network); 20 Oct 1998 11:20:31 -0000 Received: from frontier.netnology.com.au (203.33.30.19) by hertz.ukonline.co.uk with SMTP; 20 Oct 1998 11:20:31 -0000 Received: from superbruce (superbruce.netnology.com.au [203.33.30.10]) by frontier.netnology.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA10273 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:20:55 +0800 From: Craig Beasland Reply-To: Sender: "Craig Beasland" To: "'Christopher Raven'" Subject: RE: Flakey PPP link Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:12:15 +0800 Message-ID: <000101bdfc1a$50851490$0a1e21cb@superbruce.hotmix.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <362C5B7F.AD2EBE82@ukonline.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 No, the second channel comes up immediately when the connection is established and stays up the whole time - the rate here stays the same for 128K whether you use the second channel or not - so we do - all the time, and my ISP assure me that the problem is at my end not theirs, who am I to accuse them of being untruthful... thanks craig -----Original Message----- From: chris@frontier.netnology.com.au [mailto:chris@frontier.netnology.com.au]On Behalf Of Christopher Raven Sent: Tuesday, 20 October 1998 19:09 To: craig@hotmix.com.au Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions List' Subject: Re: Flakey PPP link > 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 --------------DFD74C7293B884F6666A0BD9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message