On Fri, 26 May 2000, Nathan Kurz wrote:
|Reasons this an interesting problem:
| It is reproducible. Searching the web, it seems like other people
| have had the same problem, but I haven't seen a solution yet. I
| have problems with multiple ISP's, but have no problems with another
| Linux machine. It works fine on the same hardware and ISP under NT.
|
|I think this has to be a bug with the current Linux PPP
|implementation. How else could everything work under NT with the same
|hardware, and with an older Linux on the same phone line? I'll post
Hmm. The newer pppd's work fine for me and many others. Using the same
kind of reasoning, one could ask "How could they work for everyone else but
not work for you?"
|appropriate log files if anyone would like to see them. Unless
There's always a chance that someone can spot a clue in the debug logs.
At least until no-one does spot one. :)
|someone has a ready-made solution, I am going to solve this problem.
You might try the pppd option "noccp" if you haven't already done so, since
that's one of the things you didn't address.
Have you compared pppd options you use on the box with the problem with
those used on the laptop?
Do the files alway stick at the same place during an ftp download? Can you
look at a hexdump of one of the troublesome files that you got by download
with another box and see anything just before the sticking point that is
suggestive?
Have you tried the pppd option "asyncmap a0000," which sometimes works
when the modem is absorbing XON/XOFF characters sent in the data? It
doesn't seem right here, but I've seen it work in one instance where I
swore that it couldn't help. :/
If you have an IDE hard drive, have you tried hdparm with the -u1 flag?
|Where I should I start looking? What else should I try?
Given what you've already done, perhaps it's time to add the option
"kdebug 2", and look for a clue in the hex dump during the period
leading up to a hang while downloading one of the troublesome files.
Since this produces a lot of output you should, if possible, choose a
file that not only hangs but does it shortly after the download starts.
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