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Re: Dropping PPP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Karas)
Fri Jun 7 11:38:49 1996
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:12:38 -0400
From: Kris Karas <ktk@bih.harvard.edu>
To: Lapsos TDK Death <lapsos@earthlink.net>
CC: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Lapsos TDK Death wrote:
> My iSP won't cut a PPP link at any time but my PPP seems to decide
> it wants to drop carrier randomly. It averages 90% of the time when idle
> for more than 5-10 minutes.
I've noticed the same thing for quite some time. The logs indicate that PPP thinks
the modem hung up. My ISP checked their logs, and they see the same thing.
Modems on both ends are error/correcting & auto-retraining, so this shouldn't
happen. I'm not sure who the guilty party is.
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