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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP connection keeps hanging up
Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:35:24 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5k2h5e$382@matrix.eden.com>,
jrowland@news.eden.com (John Rowland) writes:
> In article <3363E93E.17F0@socs.uts.edu.au>,
> Martin Gisch <m.g@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying to start a dialup PPP session to my ISP under 2.2.1 but it
>>only ever lasts about 5 mins at most.
>>
>>The only config stuff I've set up is the address and host settings in
>>/stand/sysinstall (network interfaces or something).
>>
>>After adding a default route to my providers host:
>> add * * 203.10.110.52
>>
>>Everything works fine...for a few minutes, then it abruptly hangs up.
>>
>>Is this a common problem, or is there some way to diagnose what the
>>problem may be? I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, so I don't know too much
>>about it yet.
>>
>>Thanks if anyone can help.
>>
>>Regards,
>> Martin Gisch.
>
>
> I had this problem, where my ISP changed hardware and my dedicated
> ppp connection would hang up after three minutes. I could see in the
> log that it had hung up because of too many lost packets or something.
> Durring the three minutes everything worked OK. I fixed it by adding
> these lines to my config file:
>
> disable lqr
> deny lqr
>
> I don't really know what these mean, but I was desparate, and it
> fixed the problem so why complain?
lqr stands for line quality request. It's a "are you still there"
protocol that is known not to work from the client side (but does
work from the server side).
> -John
> jrowland@bluecollar.com
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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