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PPP keeps shutting down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Madsen)
Sat May 6 02:57:46 1995
From: "Steven J. Madsen" <steve@erinet.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 01:44:53 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm running 1.2.8, P100 w/ 32Mb RAM. No special kernel patches.
pppd 2.1.2c, over a 28.8k link with a USR Sportster V.34 external.
My PPP link keeps shutting down for no reason that I have been able
to fathom so far. I've turned debugging on both in the user mode pppd and
in the kernel code, and routed what I can to a separate file using the
local2 service. I've gone through both this file and the kernel log file,
and haven't been able to find the cause of this problem.
Most of the time, my links just die, but the phone connection stays.
I can try pinging other machines, even just the other side of the wire, and
the modem send light flashes, but *nothing* ever comes back. Other times,
less often, the connection completely dies and the phone even hangs up. #1
happens much more often, *especially* when I'm doing large ftp transfers
(been trying to get Netscape 1.1N for two days now).
I don't know if this is a bug in Linux networking or my ISP. So,
any ideas out there on how to better track down this problem? I heard some
chatter on linux-kernel a week or so ago about problems with the PPP driver,
but I don't remember seeing the same kernel messages that were mentioned
there in my logs. Besides, to my knowledge, that bug (or bugs) were fixed
in 1.2.8. So, I'm stumped. Should I complain to my ISP, or should I turn
on kdebug 7? :-)
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Steve Madsen <steve@erinet.com>
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