From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 11:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23069 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22904 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10380; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:56:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA04048; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:29:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809281529.QAA04048@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Richard Stanaford cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP connection "hanging" In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:04:46 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:29:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > Now here is where it get really strange, to me. I can FTP all day. In > fact, I did just that and transfered about 300Megs of files without a > problem. I can also be connected via secure shell for hours at a time, > doing mail and news. The only time it has "hung" so far is while I am > "surfing the web" on the Win95 box. It just stops and if I let it sit > there for about two minutes, the connection will automatically restart > everything will again work. I dug through the ppp.log file and I saw a > line referring to too many ECHO LQR packets lost at the time the > connection was dropped and redialed. I do have Link Quality Reporting > enabled and accepted in ppp.conf. > > Humm... anyone have any thoughts? Sounds like the remote ppp is dying. You could *try* disabling tcp extensions in /etc/rc.conf, but I suspect it won't help. Another possibility (but don't hold your breath) is if you tried disabling vj compression (``disable vj'' & ``deny vj''). This is even more of an outside chance than disabling tcp extensions. I suspect you'll have to hastle your ISP into enabling logging for your connections 'till it happens again - they may then be able to tell you why their side evaporated :-/ > Thanks a lot, > -Richard. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message