Re: PPP not finsihing connection for Earthlink

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

To quote from the pppd man page:

       lcp-echo-failure <n>
              If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer
              to be dead if n LCP echo-requests are sent  without
              receiving a valid LCP echo-reply.  If this happens,
              pppd will terminate the connection.   Use  of  this
              option  requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-
              interval parameter.  This option  can  be  used  to
              enable pppd to terminate after the physical connec­
              tion has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung  up)
              in situations where no hardware modem control lines
              are available.

ie. remove this option from your /etc/ppp/options file and this problem will
go away.

Fabio Olive Leite wrote:

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> Hi there,
>
> > However, I get the LCP problem where they are being sent but not
> > received.  I put LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE 30 in my options file and have
> > upped it all the way to 150, but I still don't get any LCP's received.
> >  Finally after 30 - 60 seconds the modem simply hangs up...
>
> I've seen this on a local ISP, apparently their router doesn't care about
> responding to echo requests, and it looks like pppd doesn't like it. I've
> read every man pages and HOWTOs about it, but did not find a way to tell
> pppd not to care about echo requests...
>
> It seems all we can do is switch ISPs in this case. I hope someone can
> prove me wrong on this and tell us how can it be done!

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com



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