[speedtouch] Re: Speedtouch reliability

[jazbo]

Have you got the logs for these deaths. Some people have reported the
certain files can kill the connection but It always proved difficult to
tie it down. Is it any long file or just dertain ones?

Here's one: just happened as I was downloading a screenshot from 
xulplanet.com (was trying to get a look at the Little Mozilla skin)

Apr 27 10:15:00 router CROND[29779]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pingtest)
Apr 27 10:16:00 router CROND[29789]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:17:01 router CROND[29799]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:17:01 router CROND[29800]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pingtest2)
Apr 27 10:18:00 router CROND[29810]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:19:00 router CROND[29819]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:20:00 router CROND[29828]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:21:00 router CROND[29838]: (root) CMD (   
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Apr 27 10:21:04 router sshd[29836]: Accepted password for root from 
192.168.1.20 port 35009 ssh2
Apr 27 10:21:04 router sshd(pam_unix)[29836]: session opened for user 
root by (uid=0)

Nothing appears in the log. That's ordinary. In the log above you can 
see my pingtest scripts running uneventfully,  nothing unusual going on 
and then 4 minutes later I log into the router. I logged in to confirm 
that the link had just gone down, as it appeared to do from my PC, and 
to have a look at the log to see why. If there were any error messages 
they'd be between the last pingtest entry and the login. Usually , like 
I said there's nothing there to indicate any problem if I look at the 
log before my cron tasks detect the bad link. No PPP related process in 
the ps table has died,  they're all still running , ifconfig still 
thinks we own the IP, everything looks normal except the link is 
unusable and I can't ping numerical addresses for known-reliable hosts 
like my ISP's nameservers. My pingtest and pingtest2 scripts test the 
liveness of the connection and then killall pppd if the pings are 
unsuccessful and restart the link with "pppd call adsl " They're set to 
run pretty often .

Another specific file I can remember that downed the link many times was 
the .iso file for Mandrake8.1 . Both cd images had to be regotten again 
and again because of the interruptions to my pppoa session. Basically 
anything that's going to run for more than a minute or two at or around 
150kbps will knock it down.

It sounds like I should concentrate on trying to clean up my phoneline, 
from what you say.

I'll change the verbosity of pppoa and see if there are more specific 
messages that occur at the link outage times.

thanks



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