From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 7 0:11:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C9A37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from grover.logicsquad.net (ppp831.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.246.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 955F943E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulh@logicsquad.net) Received: (qmail 69872 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Nov 2002 08:10:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:40:56 +1030 From: "Paul A. Hoadley" To: RJ45 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with ppp from 4.7-STABLE Message-ID: <20021107081056.GL43630@grover.logicsquad.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:51:38PM -0700, RJ45 wrote: > I have a problem with ppp, at least 2 other person reported this > same problem in freebsd-questions. > > ppp hangs after a few days of running. [Warning: this isn't much more than a "me too!"] I first noticed this using "ppp -ddial" back as far as probably 3.4-R. The problem is that it occurs _so_ infrequently (the interval on my machine is more like weeks than days) that it's hard to even replicate the problem, let alone gather data on it when it occurs. As an interim solution, Aaron Hill and I have been using this script he wrote for a couple of years: http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/pingmonitor-how-to.html It's not rocket science -- it just pings the next hop on your link -- but it's been working for us for quite a while. -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message