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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp freezes
Date: 1 May 1997 16:46:33 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5k8nft$jq3@news.millennianet.com>,
scottl@athome.my.house (Scott Long) writes:
> 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.
Is your modem doing hardware handshaking ? Does ppp die when
you kill -15 it after this happens ? Does ppp time out correctly
(after the inactivity timer expires) ? Does this only happen
with Mosaic ?
Information is good. Information is our friend.
>
> 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.
I would have tought this would make things worse. With the lower
speed, a particularily good bout of compression from the modem (most
likely when transferring usenet stuff) will overflow your UART
all over the place. If this data is all in one article, it
could keep doing it.....
> Scott
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