Re: PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

[Matthew Fredrickson]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+0000), Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> > 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
> [snip]
> 
> Ditto.  Using evil winmodem here and Debian (ppp-2.4.0f-1).  2.2.19pre3 at
> the moment but it's been happening for a while.  Things seemed better when I
> turned on default-asyncmap, however it still occasionally goes belly up
> (almost _always_ when scping files out (uploading Debian packages)).  Last
> time I checked it also happend with my 28.8k USB modem (a normal modem, that
> one).
> 
> I've found a magic fix and when I've got time I'll try and burrow though the
> pppd source to try and find out why.  The magic fix? Turn on recording in
> pppd (i.e. add "record /tmp/foo"  to /etc/ppp/options).  I'd be interested
> if it fixes it for you.

Just put it in, will see if it helps any.  FWIW, my modem is a USR
ISA 56k, and had been rock solid until around there.  My friend also had
the same issues, and before we'd talked to each other about it, we'd both
assumed that possibly the modem might be failing.  After finding that we
both had troubles, and around the same "kernel time frame", we knew that
something must have happened in the kernel that either broke something
with the PPP or the kernel end of it.  Thanks for responding.

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