[ale] Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:51:11 -0500

[Chris Fowler]

I have not switched dial-up numbers.  Linux seems to work okay.  But in Win98 the connection seems to hang sometimes for 30 to 60 seconds before becoming active again.  If I keep active, sometimes I do not see this.  If I run to the bathroom, any web requests take a 30 to 60 seconds to pick up again.  In debuging, I've noticed I can ping IP addresses, but DNS lookups seem to be the slowest.

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Z. Ayers
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: 1/11/01 9:56 PM


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:Â Â Â  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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