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On 1 Sep 00, at 10:56, Pierre Fortin wrote:
> I wrote:
> >
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > Today, I looked into a similar problem with my brother-in-law's machine... he
> > just moved his office out of the house and into a real office.
> >
> > Looking into the problem (before I saw this thread), it appears the problem is
> > due to a timer popping early. Looking at the log of a successful connection, a
> > 10 second timer gets set for initial modem handshaking, then a longer timer (75
> > seconds in his case: /etc/ppp/ppp.chatscript) for the actual login... In the
> > failing attempts, the chatscript timer is not getting set, causing the initial
> > 10 second timer to pop and kill the connection before it completes.
> >
> > I'll look into this some more later; but thought it might be useful to post this
> > now...
> >
> > Pierre
>
> Finally got the answer on this one... turns out when he moved, he plugged the
> modem into the wrong port and forgot to mention it until I quizzed him about the
> problem. So, the 10 second timer was the correct one to pop...
>
> To those whose connections fail, does the sighup occur when a timer expires
> (check your log's timestamps)...? I suspect so.
>
I haven't had time to investigate any more at my end for the past few days,
but hope to spend some time on it (and maybe Figure It Out) this weekend.
Maybe I missed it, but where are these timers defined? It does seem pretty
consistent that the SIGHUP happens two seconds after the PPP handshake
starts.
Doc
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