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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ijppp screwup
Date: 5 Sep 1996 14:59:17 +0100
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Blaz Zupan (blaz.zupan@medinet.si) wrote:
: I'm connecting a LAN to the Internet through a FreeBSD machine
: which has ijppp running with dial on demand (the ijppp patched
: for IP Masquerading). It works just fine 99% of the time. But
: a few days ago it happened that ppp was suddenly disconencted
: after 1 second (!). Then it redials, connects for 1 second
: and disconnects again, redials, connects, ... until I reboot
: the machine after which everything works ok. The logs look
: just fine (I only see a "Disconnected" at the point where
: I get a disconnect after 1 second), on the Cisco where the
: FreeBSD machine is dialing into I don't see anything unusal
: either.

: I'm using the second version of ijppp with IP Masquerading
: (was it 1.1?). Does anybody have any idea what could be going
: on here? I'm clueless.

Have you got a dodgy timeout ?  Try telnetting to localhost:3000 and
"show timeout" - is it 1 second ?  I assume it's not, so try putting
a "set openmode active" line in your .conf file.... it *may* help.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....