jazbo
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 16:45:34 -0700
Edouard Gomez wrote: >John Herr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>vpi and vci are two options you set in ppp options. they vary from ISP to >>ISP. by chance my vpi and vci settings are the same as the default. >>Appartently yours are not. Contact your ISP or try the modem under Windoze >>and see what they are there, then change them in your ppp options file. >> >>these are covered in the HOWTO, as well. >> >>all the best, >>john >> >> > >Don't care about the previous post, this is not useful for you. > >The Wrong vpi/vci log entry is due to the fact that the modem is >still receiving data after the deconection. > OK, I know that my vpi and vci settings are correct for my ISP. Good to know I am not seeing things when I read my /etc/ppp/peers/adsl file and check it against online docs for use of adsl and linux with my ISP.
In the spirit of thoroughness and disclosure this is my /peers/adsl file. I can't remember if this was setup by Mandrake8.2 internet configuration wizard or , more likely copied from my earlier working installation of "speedtouch" on a different system. debug kdebug 1 noipdefault defaultroute pty "/usr/bin/pppoa3 -c -v 1 -vpi 8 -vci 35" ##correct for bellsouth, my ISP sync user "my_username" novjccomp noaccomp nopcomp nomagic noccp asyncmap 0 usepeerdns holdoff 1 persist maxfail 10 Maybe there's something wrong in the compression options that could cause the link to seem up and synched but no data can travel usefully either way? The outage I gave logs for above was a typical occurence. I was downloading a large file at 150KBs from an ftp server. The transfer suddenly stalls, all http and dns resolution fails and I have to restart pppd. If I don't push the speedlimit on my connection it can stay up for a couple of days maybe 4 or so. If I dl something large from a ftp server I can count on it going out. But I am not *totally* sure it's consistent about when it drops. Yesterday I was able to download a 94MB .iso file from thinknic over *http* at 149 KBs , sometimes hitting 188KBs, without losing the link. WHich I have done repeatedly before. without interruptions. While writing this, I downloaded it with wget again. Average speed of 152KBs - 95679514Bytes - in 19M52s. No problems. However, just 6megabytes into a high speed transfer of mdk-8.2 .iso from ftp-linux.cc.gatech downed the link yesterday and it took even less time today to generate the outage that I logged in my earlier post. (I was downloading again by ftp the same file) Yesterday I was able to resume and only got a 20 mb chunk of the same mdk .iso file before it happened again, and so on. If I want the mdk .iso file over ftp I have to try again and again and reconnect frequently. And on the other hand it seems that I can download this 94 MB .iso from thinknic.com over http anytime I want as often as I want and there's no trouble from the speedtouch. I wonder if iptables could possibly be involved. Maybe by recycling my apparently down pppd link I am *really* resetting a fubared iptables module. Will test. > So when you're >initializing a new connection, it may be possible to receive >wrong packets that get through the error checking in pppoa3. >Btw these (few) packets are discarded by the TCP/IP layer of >your OS. > > > So this neither implicates a boneheaded misconfiguration on my part nor indicates any other foulup that could easily be corrected apparently. Thanks, ~/j. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe