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Subject: Re: Flakey PPP link
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Craig Beasland wrote:
> 
> 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.

Take a look at the search engine:

http://www.freebsd.org/search/


It turned up a few things including: -

http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ180.html


Try searching with the errors you are getting too.



hope this helps,


:-)



Chris R.
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated,
> > craig
> 


<snip>

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