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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:06:09 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Morten Gulbrandsen <morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de>
Cc:        Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My Internet connection goes up and down, again and again
Message-ID:  <20011221120609.L722@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <01122102001704.00415@earth..>; from morten.gulbrandsen@t-online.de on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:48:02AM %2B0000
References:  <01122101170303.00415@earth..> <20011221112314.S724@k7.mavetju.org> <01122102001704.00415@earth..>

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:48:02AM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:14:16AM +0000, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > > Before I start to investigate, 
> > > is this Normal ?
> > > 
> > > Why ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > su-2.04# ppp
> > > Working in interactive mode
> > > Using interface: tun0
> > > ppp ON earth> dial
> > > ppp ON earth>
> > > Ppp ON earth>
> > > PPp ON earth>
> > > PPP ON earth>
> > > ppp ON earth>
> > 
> > Is this immediatly or is this after a couple of minutes/hours/days?
> 
> Periodically, in intervalls of  15 min  or so,

Can this be because of idleness and absence of traffic?

If you start a periodic ping to a random  host (every minute or
something), does the link stay up then?


> su-2.04# ppp -ddial
> Working in ddial mode
> Using interface: tun0
> su-2.04#               
> 
> It seems to be stable online,  but I have to find out the best way to  stop it.

killall ppp

> Oh, this is interesting,   in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf   ?

yups.

Edwin

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