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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!centauri.hq.nasa.gov!cshenton From: cshenton@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IIJPPP HDLC errors kill ppp process Date: 02 Nov 1995 20:54:43 GMT Organization: NASA Headquarters Lines: 29 Message-ID: <CSHENTON.95Nov2155443@wirehead.hq.nasa.gov> References: <46u8mg$qeu@vodka.intele.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: wirehead.hq.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-reply-to: "Chad B. Attermann"'s message of 28 Oct 1995 21:52:15 GMT On 28 Oct 1995 21:52:15 GMT, "Chad B. Attermann" <chada@censoft.com> said: In article <46u8mg$qeu@vodka.intele.net> "Chad B. Attermann" <chada@censoft.com> writes: Chad> I have a dedicated dialup 28.8K connection to my service Chad> provider, with routing for a class 'C' address. Same here, pretty much: I've got a Sun at home using pppd to dial into a FreeBSD 2.1-stable system running iijppp. I've also got a FreeBSD hanging off that home net, but I'm not using it as the ppp/router for other reasons. Chad> MY PROBLEM - Looking at the pp.log file, I get the LCP echo messages Chad> every 10 seconds, and then for no apparent reason, I get HDLC (FCS) Chad> errors in the log file on about 4 lines, and then the ppp process dies. Same here :-(, except that the connection *hangs*. The modems stay connected, but no traffic flows. If I powercycle my home (Sun) modem, my work machine (FreeBSD) -auto dials back and I'm OK. But I don't like having to powercycle modems! This failure has occurred sometimes several times a day, and sometimes I can go for a day at a time with no such lockup. This became unacceptable, so I switched back to using kernel pppd on the FreeBSD box. It's working fine, but I still think user-level ppp with auto dial is preferred.