Are you sure your routing tables are not mangled by some other process when you think the link goes down?
What's your MTU? It would be good if you set debug to on, and post a copy of your log as well. On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > hello all, > > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 (stock everything, haven't built the kernel > or pppd or ppp tools or much of anything from sources on this > notebook) and am connecting to netcom using wvdial. For > monitoring purposes, i have a process continuously sending pings > to a good IP. Since this box is dual-boot, i've tested ppp > using Windows using all the same hardware and phone line and > I don't have the problem discussed below in Windows. Init > strings to the modem are generic. I send ATZ and AT&F0 > in windows and in linux. > > Problem: > > PPP communication will sometimes completely go away. What I > mean by this is: > > pppd and wvdial keep running (they don't die the way I'd > expect them to if the connection went down). > > ifconfig says that ppp0 is still fine (no errors being > registered). There are no new TX or RX packets nor > are there any ppp errors displayed by ifconfig ppp0, > even while I have a second process pinging a good > host and (just for testing tcp) a third process > trying to ssh or telnet to port 110 to another good > host (both good hosts being on the other side of the > ppp connection). > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
