Having a different ISP yet living in the same city, I also experience the same
problem here, good sustained connection for 12hrs sometimes, but disconnections
every 1-10 minutes other times. my ISP, also says it is on my end, wet pairs or
a V.90 incompatibility, which IMHO is lot air to say I don't have a good answer.
This is a ditto for Phill's e-mail.
-Dee
phillip mannie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was reading personal mail from work when I noticed that someone else
> was having problems with SIGHUPs during ppp sessions. I am convinced
> that these represent being hung up upon by my ISP. My ISP swears up and
> down that I am terminating the connection, and that the problem is that
> I do not have a v.90 modem... I remain unconvinced; 9 of every 10
> disconnections are from the remote end.
>
> Sometimes I can maintain a ppp connection for more than 12 hours, but
> I've had the connection terminated in less than 1 minute, so this
> problem is getting on toward making me think about a change ISPs. I'd
> welcome expert (or other) opinion, in case I really do need to fix
> something, so following are quotes from /var/log/messages -- I've left
> debug on.
>
> I interperet this as being hung up upon:
>
> [...]
> Apr 10 07:48:43 deepthought pppd[9736]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 f1 00
> 64 5a]
> Apr 10 07:48:43 deepthought pppd[9736]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 1b 6d
> 2e ed]
> Apr 10 07:49:02 deepthought pppd[9736]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Apr 10 07:49:02 deepthought pppd[9736]: Modem hangup
> Apr 10 07:49:02 deepthought pppd[9736]: Connection terminated.
> Apr 10 07:49:02 deepthought pppd[9736]: Exit.
> Apr 10 07:50:49 deepthought kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline
> successfully unregistered
> [...]
>
> Here's an example of me terminating a ppp session by running my ppp-down
> script.
>
> [...]
> Apr 8 21:10:45 deepthought pppd[6564]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 b1 b9
> b5 75]
> Apr 8 21:11:15 deepthought pppd[6564]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 fd e3
> b0 12]
> Apr 8 21:11:15 deepthought pppd[6564]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 b1 b9
> b5 75]
> Apr 8 21:11:46 deepthought pppd[6564]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1 03]
> Apr 8 21:11:46 deepthought pppd[6564]: LCP terminated at peer's request
> Apr 8 21:11:46 deepthought pppd[6564]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1]
> Apr 8 21:11:47 deepthought pppd[6564]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x2 03]
> Apr 8 21:11:47 deepthought pppd[6564]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
> Apr 8 21:11:49 deepthought pppd[6564]: Connection terminated.
> Apr 8 21:11:49 deepthought pppd[6564]: Exit.
> Apr 8 21:13:21 deepthought kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline
> successfully unregistered
> [...]
>
> During any ppp session LPC EchoReq and LCP EchoRep are exchanged about
> every 30 seconds. The final exchange of these Rep and Req sequences
> before a remote hangup is *always* a sent LCP EchoRep that is not
> responded to inside the usual 30 seconds or so.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> phil
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