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Eric Z. Ayers eric.ayers at mindspring.com
Thu Jan 11 21:56:17 EST 2001


I've been a mindspring customer for about 2 years.  Earthlink just switched 
me to a new dialup number.  My connection was very reliable before,
but with this new number, the connection often 'hangs' and I have to
kill the PPP daemon to get it to hang up and dial out again.  I'd say
that I get a "good" connection about one time in four.  Sometimes, the
link will work for a little while, and then will freeze...  Are there
any other Earthlink users out there suffering from the same problem?
I can see in the logs that sometimes 'config-requests' timeout. 

When I switch back to the old number.  No problems.  Since Earthlink
tech support has been unreachable, or sending me back form letters
when I ask for help, I'm just about at the end of my rope: 

I'm using RedHat 6.2.  Can anyone think of something to try?  

the kernel: ppp: version 2.3.7
pppd -v:    pppd version 2.3.11


ps auxww | grep pppd

 /usr/sbin/pppd -detach lock modem crtscts asyncmap 000000 defaultroute usepeerdns debug /dev/ttyS1 115200 ipparam ppp0 linkname ppp0 noauth demand idle 500 connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0


Here are some sample log entries.  They don't tell much, other than
that the link seems to be configured correctly - I get a new IP
address.  I can see that one time below the connect script failed, but
that is not normally the case

Jan  8 06:20:50 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
Jan  8 06:21:35 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
Jan  8 06:21:35 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan  8 06:22:13 cricket kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered 
Jan  8 06:22:13 cricket kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered 
Jan  8 06:22:14 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed to 209.86.27.61
Jan  8 06:24:15 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 2.7 minutes.
Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Sent 1353522 bytes, received 14764139 bytes.
Jan  8 06:24:21 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)

Jan  8 06:24:52 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
Jan  8 06:25:36 cricket pppd[396]: Connect script failed

Jan  8 06:26:10 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
Jan  8 06:26:34 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
Jan  8 06:26:34 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan  8 06:26:38 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed to 209.86.142.251
Jan  8 07:07:55 cricket pppd[396]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity.
Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 41.4 minutes.
Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Sent 1498193 bytes, received 16125000 bytes.
Jan  8 07:07:56 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Jan  8 08:00:01 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
Jan  8 08:00:45 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
Jan  8 08:00:45 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan  8 08:01:02 cricket kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered 
Jan  8 08:01:02 cricket kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered 
Jan  8 08:01:32 cricket pppd[396]: IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
Jan  8 08:01:38 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
Jan  8 08:01:38 cricket pppd[396]: Hangup (SIGHUP)

Jan  8 08:02:17 cricket pppd[396]: Starting link
Jan  8 08:02:41 cricket pppd[396]: Serial connection established.
Jan  8 08:02:41 cricket pppd[396]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan  8 08:02:45 cricket pppd[396]: Local IP address changed to 209.86.132.235
Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity.
Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Connection terminated.
Jan  8 08:11:05 cricket pppd[396]: Connect time 8.4 minutes.
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