I have a dedicated dialup account to my internet provider. I keep the line
up by the use of a daemon that pings an address every few minutes. If the
ping fails the daemon runs my connect script. A few days ago I noticed that
my conection was down ! For some unknown reason the modem was not reacting
to the connect script. If I turned the modem off and back on the connect
script will again work. I am totally baffled by this because this setup
has been working perfectly for the last couple of years. I've replaced the
modem thinking that could be the problem; but it wasn't. :(
Here is the message from my log file; /var/adm/messages.
Apr 16 17:34:53 et pppd[12170]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Apr 16 17:34:53 et pppd[12170]: Modem hangup
Apr 16 17:34:53 et pppd[12170]: Connection terminated.
Apr 16 17:34:53 et pppd[12170]: Exit.
Apr 16 17:35:52 et pppd[20980]: pppd 2.3.4 started by root, uid 0
Apr 16 17:35:53 et chat[20981]: send (ATDT the number I dial goes here ^M)
Apr 16 17:35:54 et chat[20981]: expect (gin:)
Apr 16 17:35:54 et chat[20981]:
mOp|K^_{0^L|^XO^?^H^Hx87G4^GK@^?;^DCx^GL@<pqD;Cy^D3^F^?ht^D{0xHC^QGt^D:^@sDs;?3LKL0^GLp|^VO^L<4^O#^L^MO
.
. this garbage repeated
.
.
Apr 16 17:35:54 et chat[20981]:
0^?^On^W^G8^C7y^C|^P{4?^K^NCH0p^?^O8s^@8^Nn;wg^C^_^K|w^A^K^A8G^K^Kp0~s^@]0tLDqwx<7^K^AwKCKowfO0s^F;^Dx^N`^GB
Apr 16 17:45:00 et chat[21015]:
^M"^OC^Op^?^Aw^P}K@\`^KDs3g^@Hs^?P@a/^GHnw^Ag^^8^KCGLv4L^V^Vx`O^@wCL^_^Avf<^@O^G^C^@aDOwv8pLfLDH{^D48^C<
Apr 16 17:45:40 et chat[21015]: alarm
Apr 16 17:45:40 et chat[21015]: Failed
Apr 16 17:45:41 et pppd[21014]: Exit.
Apr 16 17:47:54 et pppd[21027]: pppd 2.3.4 started by root, uid 0
Apr 16 17:47:55 et chat[21028]: send (ATDT the number I dial^M)
Apr 16 17:47:55 et chat[21028]: expect (gin:)
Apr 16 17:48:40 et chat[21028]: alarm
Apr 16 17:48:40 et chat[21028]: Failed
Apr 16 17:48:41 et pppd[21027]: Exit.
And in my /var/adm/syslog file I get the message: "connect script failed"
and "last message repeated 163583 times". Also the garbage in
/var/adm/messages only appeared the very first time this problem started.
Now I just get the :
Apr 16 17:48:40 et chat[21028]: alarm
Apr 16 17:48:40 et chat[21028]: Failed
Does anyone know what is happening ? Why did this happen after two years of
no problems ? And why the garbage only the VERY first time ?
Thank you,
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Eric Trimmer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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