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Re: PPP Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Barney)
Mon Sep 9 20:06:22 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:34:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joshua Barney <josh@bloomnet.com>
To: Alex Rojo <alex@deustnet.es>
cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <32345156.9100326@deustnet.es>
Have you ever tried typing sync after you close the connection...
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Alex Rojo wrote:
> Hi:
> Well, i've got a really great problem. (at least for me)
> I'm connecting to internet with PPP.
> Well, my problem is this:
> I'm using pppd 2.1.7 to make the connection. When i start my computer,
> the first time i try to connect, it works OK after closing the
> connection and hanging up,if i try to connect again it doesn't work. It
> shows the message connected-->ppp0 and after that, when it has to
> receive the dynamic IP address it hangs up.
> Well, the funny thing is that there's a way to make it work everytime...
> If i install 16 Mb RAM in my computer instead of 32Mb it usually has,
> everything works ok.
> I mean, it connects perfectly everytime i try without having to reboot
> the computer.
> Ah! i forgot to say that when it has 32Mb and I try to connect the
> second time it doesn't work, but if in that moment i reboot and try the
> connection, it connects normally.
> Another thing i didn't say is that whe i have 16Mb my computer has it's
> memory full while with 32Mb it has 13 Mb free.
> I wonder if it could happen that with 32 Mb something from pppd still in
> memory (i.e. something relationed with the IP address) and when i try
> again to connect the protocol use it instead of answering for somenthing
> new.
>
> I will be very happy if someone could give me a solution for this
> problem.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ALEX ROJO
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>
> PD: I've written this document without looking to my display, so forgive
> any bad english :)
>
