Re: Diald Problems....
James, thanks for the message. I'll implement the suggested change
tomorrow morning.
I've CC:'d this message to the list because there were quite a few others
who mentioned they also had this problem with Diald.
Guess I'll have to talk to my ISP and tell them to "get with the
program"..... <grin>
Later,
Kevin Traas
> From: James Martino <jrm@yardbird.mat.jhu.edu>
> To: Kevin Traas <ktraas@uniserve.com>
> Subject: Re: Diald Problems....
> Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 6:35 PM
> >
> > So, I'm quite happy in that things are working; however, I feel I
should be
> > concerned about the "PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable
> > configuration error." messages and how the sequence repeats 3 or 4
> > times....
> From the diald-faq (worked for me):
>
> 4.7 I'm getting the message "PPP network layer died, but link did not.
> Probable configuration error." in my system logs. What does it mean?
>
> The PPP specification allows for the network layer to be brought up and
> down multiple times within a single PPP session. Normally this never
> happens. It is happening to you. The only reason that I am aware of for
> this is a buggy PPP implementation on the remote side. These bugs are
> tickled when you are using ppp-2.2. What happens is that your pppd is
> sending along a packet asking if the other side wants to use a
compression
> protocol. For whatever reasons the other side doesn't know anything about
> compression protocols and gets confused. The symptom is that the network
> layer goes up, then goes down a few seconds later, and then comes up
> again. To solve this problem you must be sure that you are not loading
the
> bsd_comp module, and you must include the "-bsdcomp" option in your
> /etc/ppp/options file.
>
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