It was a hardware problem!!!
Not my computer but one of the phones connected to the line draws current when it recharges exery 15 minutes.. It got cold and drew enough to make the systems feel the line was hung up.
Recently the temperature has been low in canberra.
/dlh.
"Marc O. Sandlus" wrote:
David Hallam wrote:>
> Hi
> Until recently I've been able to set up stable ppp connections to my
> isp.
> I recently changed modems and they have been dropping out after 10 or
> 20 minutes.Hi
Do you have an "idle timeout" set for your connection?
Try this (as root at bash prompt #):
# grep idle /etc/ppp/peers/*
or alternatively
# pppconfigMarc
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