From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:31:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:30:59 -0500 Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.243]:61742 "EHLO maynard.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:30:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:30:38 -0600 From: Matthew Fredrickson To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18 Message-ID: <20010124173038.A23669@frednet.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one other source. Somewhere between (I can't remember exactly which kernel my server started on) ~2.2.14(or 15) and 2.2.18 my ppp connection periodically hangs and I have to restart the connection. My situation is a modem that is dialed into the internet pretty close to 24/7. Sometimes the connection seems to hang up (but ifconfig reports ppp0 as being there and up w/ and IP address). The only solution to this problem is killing wvdial and wvdial'ing again. Sometimes (pretty randomly I might add) even when I redial it has this problem when it dials up except I can get a few kilobytes and then the connection freezes up. I can confirm this by a friend of mine who is just running a periodic dialup box but has seen similar troubles in the same time frame. He and I are both running debian (potato) on the boxen involved. This problem has persisted and still occurs even as I've upgraded the kernel but I think (not sure) that it has gotten a little better w/2.2.18. I'm not sure how I can replicate it, but sometimes when I get home I find the internet connection not working and the linux box says ppp0 is up. I would appreciate any help I can get. I'm about to go look at historical kernel changelogs. Thanks. -- Matthew Fredrickson AIM MatthewFredricks ICQ 13923212 matt@NOSPAMfredricknet.net http://www.fredricknet.net/~matt/ "Everything is relative" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/