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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
