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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP problem
Date: 1 Mar 1996 16:35:28 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4h790g$a1i@helena.MT.net>
References: <4gvpqk$8m4@hermes.acs.unt.edu>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <4gvpqk$8m4@hermes.acs.unt.edu>,
Byron Goodman <bgoodman@deathstar.cascss.unt.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm having a problem with PPP, not pppd.  I get it to connect and I can use
>it, log in, etc, but after 2 - 5 minutes it drops the connection.  It will
>drop the connection even if there is activity.

It certainly shouldn't, unless you have one of the 'keep alive/LCP'
options on either the remote or your end.  They may not be supported, or
supported differently on your provider.

>It says something about
>routed killing routing to tun0.  I don't know if this is causing it to loose
>the connection or if it is a result of loosing the connection.

That's the result.

> BTW:  It coredumps occasionally.

You might try updating to the most recent version in -stable.  Simply get the new
bits from /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp, recompile and re-install and see if it helps.


Nate
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