From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 1 19:36:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA11972 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:36:13 -0700 Received: from sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu [130.245.1.47]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA11966 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:36:06 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id WAA06233 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:34:35 -0400 Received: (from gene@localhost) by starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA23385; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 08:24:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 08:24:35 -0400 From: Gene Stark Message-Id: <199507011224.IAA23385@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Mon, 26 Jun 1995 01:01:14 +0100 Subject: Well, I'm stumped.. [ij-ppp] References: <3t2e6l$kk9@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan writes: >Tonite, after adding a whole batch of afilters and dfilters (as per suggestion) >I went back to auto mode and went out to dinner after reading my mail. >Here's what I found in my ppp log when I came back: Your ppp.conf looks the same as mine except that I have "set timeout 300" near the beginning whereas you have "set timeout 60" near the end. Have you watched the modem lights (if any) to check for telltale periodic stuff getting send when the line is supposed to be idle? Are you getting any sort of "keepalive" packets from your provider? The only further suggestion I can make is to run tcpdump on the interface and try to find out what you are getting or sending that is holding open the line. On my system (with the filters you now have), ppp drops the line religiously after five minutes go by. - Gene