On Tuesday 31 July 2001 23:53, James Preston wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hi, > > Slaven Peles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like windoze somehow reinitiates data transfer > > when flow control fails, while ppp (or modem, or whatever is > > responsible for the flow control) under linux does nothing and the > > transfer simply stalls. > > Have a look at the "novj" option for pppd - it fixed my stall > problems. Apparently some PPP servers don't opperate to spec as far as > header compression is concerned. Another problem is how long your > modem will remain off-hook while carrier not detected (eg. house-mate > picks up the phone). Bumping up that value can stop premature > hang-ups. > > > James.
Actually, I put nobsdcomp and nodeflate, as John Hasler suggested, and now everything works very well. Right now I'm doing lots of downloads just to make sure this was really *the* fix. It seems that it wasn't enough to specify hardware flow control only; I had to explicitly forbid any software flow control in my case. Thanks for the help, Slaven
