On May 23, Lindsay Allen wrote
> 
> 
> I used to get excellent ppp transfers, but of late I get errors and
> the modem lights often cease activity for several seconds at a time.
> ppp version is 2.2.0f-23.
> 
> ifconfig shows:-
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol  
>           inet addr:203.59.0.18  P-t-P:203.59.24.26  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:552  Metric:1
>           RX packets:27767 errors:524 dropped:524 overruns:0
>           TX packets:14018 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0


Do you have irqtune installed and configured to give your modem (serial port,
actually) the first priority.  I used to get a lot of errors like this before I
discovered irqtune.  It is in the hwtools package, btw.

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