Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 05:14:34 -0800 From: "Jay Nordwick" <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems connection with ppp to a Portmaster. Message-ID: <199901101313.FAA19361@hub.freebsd.org>
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My ISP uses Portmaster systems and under FreeBSD (tried with MS NT, but all is fine), I am getting very strange behavior. I would normally pass these off as line noise or something else, but I have had the telco check my line for noise twice from the station and once in my building. First, the connection always takes longer. After going through the familiar noises, it sound like it has to go through them again, then it takes about 15 seconds for a link to be established (as opposed to about 3 for NT). Second, I get very bursty throughput. When I ping, I get nothing, then I will get about 10 packets quickly, then nothing, then another 10. Again, this does not occur in NT and I have been on the line with my ISP at the time this happens and they are telling me that they do not see any problems and that others seems to be working fine (they even setup a special account for me to test this behavior). Third, I get frequent and sudden drops (my line, I have mutted my phone and listened to the line and all of the sudden my modem just drops). I checked through the GNATS system, but didn't find anything useful. Has anybody else had problems or know what further information I can provide or what I can do? -jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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