Its not really much use, but I had an Alcatel running fine for weeks on a linux box.
Could it be a dodgy DSL location? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 15:21, David Kirk wrote: > The Internet connection for the OSTC seems very unreliable. It has gone > down 110 times in the last 3 days and has a maximum uptime of 3h:37m. > > I am using IPCop v1.20 and I have a Alcatel SpeedTouch Home ADSL Modem. > I am trying to figure out if my problem is with my IPCop configuration > or if my DSL line is a bit flakey. > > I followed the setup instructions on the IPCop web site to get this far, > but maybe there is some NZ specific changes I need to make? > > Here is an excerpt from /var/log/messages: > > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: No response to 3 echo-requests > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Serial link appears to be > disconnected. > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Connection terminated. > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Connect time 3.8 minutes. > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Sent 2563 bytes, received 2596 > bytes. > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pptp[3071]: log[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:142]: > short read (4294967295): Input/output error > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pptp[3073]: > log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:245]: Closing connection > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pptp[3073]: > log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.c:307]: Closing PPTP connection > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Using interface ppp0 > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall snort: pcap_loop: recvfrom: Network is down > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall snort: Snort received signal 3, exiting > Feb 4 14:24:38 firewall pppd[227]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp1 > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall ipcop: PPP has gone down on ppp0 > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall dnsmasq[3129]: started, version 1.10 cachesize > 150 > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall dnsmasq[3129]: reading /etc/hosts > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall dnsmasq[3129]: reading /etc/resolv.conf > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall dnsmasq[3129]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 - > local interface > Feb 4 14:24:39 firewall dnsmasq[3129]: reading > /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases > Feb 4 14:24:40 firewall pptp[3073]: > log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:88]: Closing connection > Feb 4 14:24:40 firewall pptp[3135]: > log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:580]: Client connection > established. > Feb 4 14:24:41 firewall pptp[3135]: > log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:707]: Outgoing call > established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 0). > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall pppd[227]: local IP address 202.0.63.174 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall pppd[227]: remote IP address 202.0.63.254 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall pppd[227]: primary DNS address 203.96.152.4 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall pppd[227]: secondary DNS address 203.96.152.12 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall ipcop: PPP has gone up on ppp0 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: started, version 1.10 cachesize > 150 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: reading /etc/hosts > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: reading /etc/ppp/resolv.conf > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: using nameserver 203.96.152.12 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: using nameserver 203.96.152.4 > Feb 4 14:24:43 firewall dnsmasq[3143]: reading > /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases > Feb 4 14:24:44 firewall ipsec_setup: (/etc/ipsec.conf, line 1) cannot > open configuration file "/etc/ipsec.conf" -- `restart' aborted > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall ipcop: Dynamic DNS ip-update: your IP is > already up-to-date > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall kernel: device ppp0 entered promiscuous mode > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall snort: Initializing daemon mode > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall snort: PID stat checked out ok, PID set to > /var/run/ > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall snort: Writing PID file to "/var/run/" > Feb 4 14:24:56 firewall snort: There's no second layer header available > for this datalink > Feb 4 14:24:59 firewall snort: Snort initialization completed > successfully, Snort running > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > Later > > David Kirk
