Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:13:41 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: ben@rosengart.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp driving me nuts Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.980728160846.15586A-100000@pilot> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727194538.19276A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > I think ppp has built in timeout if no packets go over the > network: > ppp ON rome> show timeout > Idle Timer: 180 secs LQR Timer: 30 secs Retry Timer: 3 secs > ppp ON rome> I seem to recall that theres a 3 minute idle timeout which cannot be overridden if you start the ppp session from interactive mode. I often find that my PPP session does not start packet mode automatically when I connect (but sometimes does), so I need to quit, restart, go to term mode (it won't let me just go straight to term mode without restarting) and do a ~p to trigger it. I've also found a lot of 'silent' dropouts (nothing in the logs, and the ppp driver does not seem to detect the line being down: it continues to send packets to the modem as shown by the transmission status lights). At other times I've been getting lots of repeated dropouts due to data errors (logged, which I can hunt around for and send in if required), but if I reconnect straight away using pppd I never have problems (I guess either pppd is much more forgiving of stuff like noise on the modem line, or ppp has a small bug) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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