From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 07:24:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA14688 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:24:11 -0800 Received: from phoenix.volant.org (root@phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA14682 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:24:05 -0800 From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.volant.org [205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA05844 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:22:50 -0800 Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA20340; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:28:59 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 07:28:59 -0800 Message-Id: <9511031528.AA20340@asimov.volant.org> Subject: Strange networking problem with 2.0.5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: OwInr35WbwxYURLEOoGxPw== Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, [ I tried sending this a few days ago, but then was apparently dropped [ from all the FreeBSD mailing lists, so I didn't see any responses. [ Since I can't even find my question in the archives, I'm assuming that [ it didn't make it out after all. If you've already seen this and [ responded to it -PLEASE- send me another copy of your reply. I'm running 2.0.5 as a gateway machine between my LAN and the Internet. I'm using Ethernet for the LAN, and a 28.8Kb modem with iijppp for the connection to my Internet access provider. It is mostly working fine, but I am experiencing two problems. 1. The link spontainiously drops rather frequently. It isn't timeouts, and I haven't been able to determine whether the problem is at my end, their end, or with the phone line itself. This isn't a major problem since I can just set up a ping with a sixty second interval to make sure the line is re-opened if necessary. 2. After a while (several hours to a few days - averages about two days), it will get into a state where I can't make high-level connections (e.g. finger) from the gateway to outside machines. Ping and traceroute still work fine, and incomming mail/http/etc. connections still work fine, but outgoing connections just hang. Re-starting the connection, or even killing and re-starting the ppp process has no effect; the only way I've found to fix it is to re-boot. Any advice on how to find out what's going on here would be appreciated. Thanks, -Pat My opinions are my own. For a small royalty, they can be yours as well... Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG || http://Phoenix.Volant.ORG/ || lashley@netcom.com