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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!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!news.millennianet.com!newsmaster From: scottl@athome.my.house (Scott Long) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp freezes Date: 1 May 1997 00:18:05 GMT Organization: Millennia Communications, LLC Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5k8nft$jq3@news.millennianet.com> References: <3365F402.DAAA5D0F@msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrad-ascend-ppp6.nosc.mil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40054 In article <3365F402.DAAA5D0F@msu.edu>, Ed Symanzik <zik@msu.edu> writes: > I just reinstalled with 2.2.1-RELEASE and Mosaic. > > If I open the news window in Mosaic and select 'show all newsgroups' > the performace meter shows several packets in and out then nothing. > ppp doesn't register anything being wrong but the link is dead. > I can't ping, telnet, etc. > I had this problem too... it was unpredictable except that it seemed to affect news reading the most. I fixed it by turning the speed down from 115200 to 57600 in my ppp.conf. Guess ppp just couldn't handle the speed. This may or may not help you, though. Scott