[ale] RE:

[Michael Johnson]

Yes, I am having the same problem.  The connection just stops, period.
I have to hang up and re-dial to do anything. I have contacted
Mindspring/Earthlink about it and they state they can't see any
problems and to call back if it happens again.

Unfortunately I am doing this on a Win box for game requirements so I
don't have any logs to match up with yours.

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf
> Of Eric Z.
> Ayers
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:56 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject:
>
>
> I've been a mindspring customer for about 2 years.
> Earthlink just switched
> me to a new dialup number.  My connection was very reliable before,
> but with this new number, the connection often 'hangs' and I have to
> kill the PPP daemon to get it to hang up and dial out
> again.  I'd say
> that I get a "good" connection about one time in four.
> Sometimes, the
> link will work for a little while, and then will freeze...
> Are there
> any other Earthlink users out there suffering from the same problem?
> I can see in the logs that sometimes 'config-requests' timeout.
>
> When I switch back to the old number.  No problems.  Since Earthlink
> tech support has been unreachable, or sending me back form letters
> when I ask for help, I'm just about at the end of my rope:
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.2.  Can anyone think of something to try?
>
> the kernel: ppp: version 2.3.7
> pppd -v:    pppd version 2.3.11
>
>
> ps auxww | grep pppd
>
>  /usr/sbin/pppd -detach lock modem crtscts asyncmap 000000
> defaultroute usepeerdns debug /dev/ttyS1 115200 ipparam
> ppp0 linkname ppp0 noauth demand idle 500 connect
> /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0
>
>
> Here are some sample log entries.  They don't tell much, other than
> that the link seems to be configured correctly - I get a new IP
> address.  I can see that one time below the connect script
> failed, but
> that is not normally the case
>
> Jan  8 06:20:50 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
> Jan  8 06:21:35 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
> Jan  8 06:21:35 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Jan  8 06:22:13 cricket kernel: PPP BSD Compression module
> registered
> Jan  8 06:22:13 cricket kernel: PPP Deflate Compression
> module registered
> Jan  8 06:22:14 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed
> to 209.86.27.61
> Jan  8 06:24:15 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 2.7 minutes.
> Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Sent 1353522 bytes,
> received 14764139 bytes.
> Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>
> Jan  8 06:24:52 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
> Jan  8 06:25:36 cricket pppd[396]: Connect script failed
>
> Jan  8 06:26:10 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
> Jan  8 06:26:34 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
> Jan  8 06:26:34 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Jan  8 06:26:38 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed
> to 209.86.142.251
> Jan  8 07:07:55 cricket pppd[396]: Terminating connection
> due to lack of activity.
> Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 41.4 minutes.
> Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Sent 1498193 bytes,
> received 16125000 bytes.
> Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Jan  8 08:00:01 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
> Jan  8 08:00:45 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
> Jan  8 08:00:45 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Jan  8 08:01:02 cricket kernel: PPP BSD Compression module
> registered
> Jan  8 08:01:02 cricket kernel: PPP Deflate Compression
> module registered
> Jan  8 08:01:32 cricket pppd[396]: IPCP: timeout sending
> Config-Requests
> Jan  8 08:01:38 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  8 08:01:38 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>
> Jan  8 08:02:17 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
> Jan  8 08:02:41 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
> Jan  8 08:02:41 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Jan  8 08:02:45 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed
> to 209.86.132.235
> Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Terminating connection
> due to lack of activity.
> Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
> Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 8.4 minutes.
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