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
Stephen Bosch wrote:
>
> So, Doc...
>
> have you confirmed that it is the ISP that is causing the problem?
>
> I hope I don't have to switch ISPs... there has to be a way of figuring out
> what they may have changed...
>
> And again -- *why* does it work when you dial with kppp? I think the answer
> resides elsewhere...
>
> -Stephen-
>
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> Subject: Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly
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> > On 28 Aug 00, at 20:05, Anton Graham wrote:
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> > > Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Stephen Bosch:
> > >
> > > > And again -- that SIGHUP is damn peculiar -- who is sending it?
> > >
> > > I suspect that that is modem generated. Every modem i have ever owned
> > > generates a SIGHUP when the other end hangs up on it.
> > >
> >
> > That makes sense. If the ISP doesn't like the PPP handshaking for whatever
> > reason (maybe USWest figures I'm running Linux so it should shut me up)
> > then it probably causes the line to go down, thus causing the SIGHUP.
> >
> > Doc Evans
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