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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu!sophri.cc.oxy.edu!nntp2.cerf.net!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!news.magicnet.net!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SLIP drives me cRaZY (only works on good days) Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:21:14 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4h2rhq$4kt@helena.MT.net> References: <4h2l77$6hg@nic.wat.hookup.net> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4h2l77$6hg@nic.wat.hookup.net>, Thomas Schroecker <thomas@canadian-agra.com> wrote: >Hi there... >I've got FreeBSD 2.1, and am trying to get SLIP to work properly quite >unsucessfuly. It seems to work fine as soon as the computer is rebooted, >but after the machine is up for a while things go weiered. #1 POP >connecdiefn up after itself (ie leaves routes up) Whoa, I'm not sure what happened at the end there. We've jot a jumbled #1, and no #2. >#3 sometimes the users can't log in at all...they receive a NO CARRIER >message after they log in...#4 sometimes it works extremely fast (3500cps >over 28.8's) sometimes it works extremely slow (500cps over 28.8's) >downloading stuff from our local server. All of the above are modem/phone line problems, not a FreeBSD problem. If the line is good you'll get a good connection, else you won't. Bad phone lines are pretty common in bigger cities, and bad modems are a more common problem. >Just little weired things like that to make my day lousy. here are my >login & logout scripts for slip incase it makes a difference. They both look fine. I'm running SLIP to connect home to the office, and I regularly get uptimes of 3-4 weeks coming to the office (~1 mile), but we rarely get > 24 hours to the ISP across the street. It's all a matter of how good the lines are from the remote to the server. >PS. When users get a NO CARRIER MESSAGE right after they log in, I get >the message Sliplogin exited at signal 255 or 256...what does 255 or >256 mean? It means that the sliplogin process existed abnormally, rather than normally. Something bad happened (like the line went down unexpectedly). I *suspect* all of your problems are due to modem setup and/or phone lines. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth