Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:32:15 -0700 (PDT) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: tpatel@ecpi.com (Tushar Patel) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, tpatel@ecpi.com Subject: Re: Help: Random hangup with Boca16 & Microcom modem. Message-ID: <m0uBahz-0008uqC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <199604230002.AAA19611@ecpi.com> from "Tushar Patel" at Apr 23, 96 00:02:03 am
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> I am seeing random hangup on this modems. It is at the point were lot of > users are complaining. > Has anybody seen this? It comes and goes, and I've always attributed it to line noise. The way to tell is to ask the user if there's a long pause before the carrier drops (that's the modem retraining, trying to resurrect the connection from the ashes). > By any chance this is because of the DTR drop from the Boca16 to modem? > (The default is 0.05 second, should I change this to higher value -0.10-? > Will this make difference? Or I am on the wrong track?) Dropping DTR would certainly do it, and I wonder now, if silo overflows might somehow cause the port to get reset, triggering a momentary DTR drop? It seems a long shot... > "/kernel: pid 19306 : ppp: uid 0: exited on signal 10" This will certainly cause it; it's the equivalent of exiting your shell to logout. You should find pppd.core laying around in the user's home directory, and it would be worthwhile to find out why it's bombing... -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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