From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 07:05:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28147 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA28141 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 07:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r.yeardley@dial.pipex.com) Received: (qmail 7197 invoked from network); 16 Feb 1999 15:01:37 -0000 Received: from userl947.uk.uudial.com (HELO rich.hunter13.lan) (193.149.76.252) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 1999 15:01:37 -0000 From: r.yeardley@dial.pipex.com (Richard Yeardley) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp locking up Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:03:50 GMT Organization: None Message-ID: <36c98747.164241256@smtp.dial.pipex.com> References: <199902161336.PAA14816@relay.ct.paywise.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199902161336.PAA14816@relay.ct.paywise.co.za> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA28143 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:36:32 CAT-200, it was written: >I have a FreeBSD 2.2.2 system installed as a dial-on-demand gateway >for mail (using sendmail) and internet browsing (using squid >as a proxy) between my Novell LAN and my ISP. I don't know much >about the system, as it was installed by my ISP and we mostly treat >it as an "appliance", although I did program on a SCO Unix system >more than 6 years ago. > >Most of the time it works fine, but some days the modem connection >just locks up -- if I telnet from my Win95 machine to the FreeBSD >box, and try to ping my ISP, there is no response. Also, the >line should drop after 2 or 3 minutes of inactivity, but something is >keeping the line open, because it will stay in this "locked up" state >for half-an-hour or more. > >Sometimes, going to the box and pulling the phone line out of the >wall and re-inserting it will fix the problem (the line drops, it >re-dials, presumably gets a cleaner connection, and life gets back to >normal). Other times, this gets another couple of minutes of life >if we're luck, and then it locks up again. > >Presumably, these problems are related to line noise and poor line >quality, but a couple of questions come to mind: > >1) Is there a way to force ppp to drop the line, without me having to >walk across the room to unplug the phone line? ("reboot" works, but >I was hoping for a more subtle method) > >2) Why does the line stay open when there is no throughput? > >3) Could this problem be related to an old release of FreeBSD? >Should I get my ISP to install a more up-to-date release of >either ppp or FreeBSD? I know this is an old release, but other than >this problem it mostly "ain't broke, so why fix it"? If I should >install a later release, which one? > >Thanks, >Andre I have the same problem on 3.0-RELEASE. It doesn't happen very often but it's a pain when it does. I kill the ppp process and unplug the modem->phone cable for a minute or so. After re-starting ppp all's well. I've no idea what causes it, neither have I a cure for it. It's just one of those things I guess. Rich FBSD3.0 : AMD PR75 : 32MB RAM : 335MD HD : V90 modem : NE2000 NIC apache 1.3.4+PHP3 : named : qpopper: socks5 : ipfw : mysql : samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message