Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:25:28 -0400 From: tyler@heathers.stdio.com (Tyler Barnett) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <199610250225.WAA20030@heathers.stdio.com>
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PPP "freezing" problems I am having a terrible time staying connected to my ISP. He's running a USR 28.8 Sportster, and my modem is a Practical Peripherals PM288MT II V.34. The link between us will run fine for awhile, which is 5 mins or 50 mins. Then suddenly there is no modem activity. Pings to my ISP fail, and the TX light blinks on the modem without any RX response. The only thing I have to do is turn the modem off and back on, and then ppp redials the line, and I'm back up again. If I sub in an old 9600 IBM 7855, the problem gets better, but isn't cured. I'm using /dev/cuaa1 at 38400 baud, and my ppp.conf is pretty much standard, except for the "set dial" line, which I have worked over and it looks like this: ATE0Q1&F1%C0\\Q3&R0%E2&W. Basically everything I can do to not run compression, make the modem detect line quality problems, and adjust for them, run RTS/CTS hardware handshaking. Nothing I do on this line seems to help. When the modem "freezes", the MR, TR, HS, OH, and CD lights are on. So that means the connection is still going, I suppose. My system is a 386SX33 with 16meg, 2.1.5R, and tun0 support instead of ppp in the kernel. I have a 16550A in COM2 for this link. I've never posted to this group or mailing list before, and I'm not sure what will happen, if mail will come my way, or if I have to subscribe to it. Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Tyler Barnett tyler@stdio.com
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