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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4h790g$a1i@helena.MT.net> References: <4gvpqk$8m4@hermes.acs.unt.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net 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 -- 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