Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:45:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ben Grubin" <bgrubin@pobox.com> To: Denny Reiter <mcneills@inw.net> Cc: Scott <scott@SchematiX.net>, Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 and user PPP lockups Message-ID: <13794.49175.270508.933524@nickelbag.b00m.org> In-Reply-To: <35E2B8B2.66B09E75@inw.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9808250517450.1736-100000@SchematiX.net> <35E2B8B2.66B09E75@inw.net>
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I've seen this type of behaviour occur when your provider has an idle timeout set on the remote side. Try setting up a keep-alive (ping script or a web page that auto-reloads every so often) and seeing if the problem continues. Cheers, Ben Denny Reiter writes: > Scott wrote: > > > > Check the timeout portion of the ppp.conf file. Its possible that you are > > hitting the time limit and its booting you off. Just make sure timeout is > > set to 0. > > > > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just made the great leap from Linux two days ago, and I am > > > experiencing a wierd problem: I am running 2.2.7 and I set up user PPP > > > as per the Handbook. All seems to be running fine, except that after > > > around 15-20 minutes of being connected my entire PPP session locks up. > > Hmm, > > I've been seeing this also, but was chalking it up to either the modem > being flaky (I just installed it, a USR Sportster 33.6 Int) or my ISP > since they are about to do an upgrade. > > I haven't been able to find a rhyme or reason for it. If I disconnect > PPP and redial, that fixes it, and usually it stays fixed. I've got my > timeout set to 0 from 8am-4pm, and 15 minutes the rest of the day. > > > Regards, > > Denny Reiter > denny@kewanee.net > ------------------------- > www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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