Thanks for the input (as it is a little OT for the list)
I would say from what you are saying is that PPP has half died , (ipcp dead)
but the link is still up (lcp)
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ian Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Stange ping message
> Ian Ward wrote:
>
> > Intermittently (twice in 4 days) they stop working. The call is still
up to
> > Telstra (the techs at telstra could see it), if I ping the clients
address I
> > get the following:
> >
> > >From FastEthernet0.civ4.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.10.6): Source
Quench
>
> There are presumably other symptoms that you haven't mentioned (or
> observed), these would point to the actual problem. What you are seeing
> is that the router one hop before the destination host is detecting and
> reporting congestion for datagrams destined for that host, perhaps
> because it has a long queue of datagrams waiting to be sent. The source
> quench is a request to the sender to back off a little bit, in order to
> reduce the probability of actual datagram loss, but it has not detected
> that the destination host is unreachable (yet).
>
> Causes include:
>
> - The destination host has crashed, without dropping its link and the
> Telstra router hasn't declared it dead yet.
>
> - Someone is pulling (or pushing) a huge amount of traffic down the
> link. Think lots of concurrent fat downloads, or even DOS. (Does the
> site have enemies?)
>
>
> - Raz
>
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