One of 2 things. 1) It could be a line fault or something like that, hence it sounds like a problem with telstra, give them a call and ask them to look into it. 2) Telstra doesnt provide reliable service to world+dog. Move to a more reliable ISP. RequestDSL comes to mind, they have outages once a year.
Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 20 December 2002 11:12 AM To: SLUG Subject: [SLUG] One for the brains trust. I have a linux firewall on the end of a ppp link to Telstra Direct. It's a Pentium II box, 2.4.19 kernel. Very standard config. The modem 'link' stays 'up'. But there are intermittent 'outages'. Every so often there is an outage of 4 minutes, 57ish seconds. This happens with the following periodicity.... An outage every eight hours of 4 mins. Then after a few days, outages occur more frequently. Ping times seem pretty long as well in general. I've noticed this on another link using 2.4 kernel with an HDSL link to DavNet. Any clues? Regards & happy pagan festival to all. Markt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
