Hi, I think it is just the remote isp is a bit misconfigured, or the link is extremely slow. Try modify lcp-echo-failure to a bigger number in /etc/ppp/options to prevent the drop of the link Shao. Jonathan Lupa [jjlupa@jamdata.net] wrote: > I've been getting dropped from my ISP unexpectedly from time to time > and I'm not sure how to go about debugging it. There is nothing > unusual in syslog or messages, but I noticed this in ppp.log. (kernel > 2.2.12 pppd 2.3p5). Any debugging tips would be greatly appreciated! > > Dec 2 23:38:08 Sith pppd[22741]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xbf > magic=0xd4cbdb59] > Dec 2 23:38:38 Sith pppd[22741]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xc0 > magic=0xd4cbdb59] > Dec 2 23:39:08 Sith pppd[22741]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xc1 > magic=0xd4cbdb59] > Dec 2 23:39:38 Sith pppd[22741]: No response to 4 echo-requests > Dec 2 23:39:38 Sith pppd[22741]: Serial link appears to be > disconnected. > Dec 2 23:39:38 Sith pppd[22741]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Peer not > responding" > Dec 2 23:39:40 Sith pppd[22741]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Dec 2 23:39:40 Sith pppd[22741]: Modem hangup > Dec 2 23:39:40 Sith pppd[22741]: Connection terminated. > Dec 2 23:39:41 Sith pppd[22741]: Exit. > > Is it just because things are hairy on the ISP end? As soon as I dial > back in, everything works fine again (and there is no apparent time > interval for which this happens). > > I know about the lcp-echo options and will play around with them, but > I'm hoping someone can tell me whats going on behind the curtain here. > > Thanks All! > -Jonathan > -- > jjlupa@jamdata.net > GPG public key available from http://www.jamdata.net/~jjlupa/gpg.asc > > > > > > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: shao@cia.com.au |___/ _____________________________________________________________________________
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