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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!cibnor!cortes!lmiller From: lmiller@cortes.cibnor.mx (Larry Miller [DT]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd dial on demand possible? Date: 6 Dec 1996 00:02:13 GMT Organization: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Lines: 31 Message-ID: <587nq5$k83@bermejo.cibnor.mx> References: <57va8e$ejd@bermejo.cibnor.mx> <581deo$2qv@anorak.utell.net> <5844fv$57l@bermejo.cibnor.mx> <32A6B152.41C67EA6@net-tel.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cet-1.cibnor.conacyt.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Andrew Gordon (andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk) wrote: : Larry Miller [DT] wrote: : > Not sure of that, but the symptom we're seeing with ijppp is TR dropping : > BEFORE any signs of retraining or such. Still appear to have carrier : > when TR drops. Also, the symptom appears consistently on outgoing FTP but : > never on incoming. : This suggests ppp is disconnecting deliberately. Is there nothing : in /var/log/ppp.log to explain why? I agree, ppp (or the tun/serial driver?) appeared to be disconnecting deliberately. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the log, rather frustrating... however, we FIGURED OUT what was happening: we had parity even in pppconf, and the terminal server was running no parity. Duhhhh... I suspect the serial driver was getting parity errors and giving up on us. Still am unsure exactly WHO was hanging up, nor why the configuration examples were set up for even parity, but it works great with no parity-- 4.5K/sec file transfers over standard Mexican phone lines. Thanks to all for the comments, or better put, lack thereof-- having nobody else popping up with that trouble gave me the distinct impression we had a configuration problem, and that was correct. :> Saludos-- Larry Larry Miller Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico