> >My PPP connection seems to be working well except that certain > >things keep hanging it. My dial-in works fine. I can run ping or > >telnet sessions for any amount of time without a problem. Problems > >occur with FTP and Netscape. > > > Is your sample sufficient for you to be able to say that this is not just > chance? Do failures happen after any particular length of time? or are > they at unpredictable times?
This happens consistently. I haven't been able to hold a connection ever when using FTP or netscape. The amount of time it takes to drop is inconsistent. Today I managed to get two files through FTP before the connection dropped, but yesterday I couldn't get a 150k file through before the connection dropped. > > >Even FTP works fine to connect to a site. But when I download > >a file it will work for awhile, then the whole PPP connection dies. > >I downloaded a 132k file and it got to 120k and then all my > >connections died out. > > > >The same thing happens with Netscape. I can browse a couple > >of sites, but eventually it dies too. All of my connections freeze > >up and netscape just keeps spinning as if it's still looking for > >files. > > When this kind of thing happens to me, it is because someone else is > trying to phone me on the line that the modem is using. We have here > (UK) a facility called 'call waiting' which beeps gently to let you > know someone else is trying to ring you when you're aleady talking. > This upsets the modem sufficiently to make it drop the connection. > If your error logs show that the PPP connection is simply dropped, > could something of this nature be the reason? > This can't be the problem because I have a dedicated data line. I turn off call waiting anyway. > If your modem connection does not drop, then this cannot be the > problem, of course. > > > > >Then I have to go kill -9 all of my open internet sessions including > >my PPP and I can't get a good dial-up again until I reboot the > >machine. ppp.log doesn't seem to show any big error messages > > > Do you really have to use -9? This is really the last resort. You should > just kill (the default is -15) to give processes the chance to clean > themselves > up; or does kill -15 not work? I'm enclosing a copy of my ppp.log in case that helps someone. Thanks, Casey
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