This is happening about 5 seconds after it has dialled! Sometimes I get a "pppd timeout" message. I've increased this amount. What I'll do is have a play on my home machine and see if I can get any joy on that. Curiously, I have only been having this problem since going to 2.2.14. Though I am hedging a bet that this is a coincident. AND... I used to get this message with CorelLinux - but I don't anymore cos I bought a robust linux ;o) Kev -----Original Message----- From: James Ogley [mailto:ogley@suse.co.uk] Sent: 27 March 2000 16:35 To: Kevin Jackson Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Infamous pppd died unexpectedlly
I'm trying to set up my Linux box to dial out - but I keep getting the ol' message of pppd daemon died unexpectedly.
This happened to me last night, right annoying, isn't it? I suspect that it might have something to do with your ISP closing the connection if you fulfill requirements to be classified as 'Idle' ie you may not have sent any connection requests on standard ports for xx seconds/minutes/hours/decades. Obviously something like this varies from ISP to ISP, but one way to get past it is to ping a remote host every minute or so while you're online. Either set a script to do it, or do it manually (advantage of the latter is you can do different ones - so it doesn't look like you're doing anything dodgy) Or, and probably more likely to achieve the desired result, although less automate-able is to have an extra browser window open, and make occasional connecetions to random websites. More like to work as ISPs are more likely to monitor for connections on port 80 than any other port. -- James Ogley, SuSE Linux UK Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley@suse.co.uk www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james@rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Kevin Jackson wrote:
This is happening about 5 seconds after it has dialled! Sometimes I get a "pppd timeout" message. I've increased this amount.
What I'll do is have a play on my home machine and see if I can get any joy on that. Curiously, I have only been having this problem since going to 2.2.14. Though I am hedging a bet that this is a coincident. AND... I used to get this message with CorelLinux - but I don't anymore cos I bought a robust linux ;o)
IIRC I had this happen when my resolv.conf file had a typo. But then it really did *time out*. Worth a double check. I use wvdial BTW. Tim, NJ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi Kevin, I suggest you try adding the following to /etc/ppp/options if you are using PAP. I found that often the ISP did not respond for quite sometime in busy periods and pppd timed out. pap-max-authreq 40 pap-timeout 120 Have a look at pppd manual page for details Regards Graham Smith -------------------------------------- On 27-Mar-2000 Kevin Jackson wrote:
This is happening about 5 seconds after it has dialled! Sometimes I get a "pppd timeout" message. I've increased this amount.
What I'll do is have a play on my home machine and see if I can get any joy on that. Curiously, I have only been having this problem since going to 2.2.14. Though I am hedging a bet that this is a coincident. AND... I used to get this message with CorelLinux - but I don't anymore cos I bought a robust linux ;o)
Kev
-----Original Message----- From: James Ogley [mailto:ogley@suse.co.uk] Sent: 27 March 2000 16:35 To: Kevin Jackson Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Infamous pppd died unexpectedlly
I'm trying to set up my Linux box to dial out - but I keep getting the ol' message of pppd daemon died unexpectedly.
This happened to me last night, right annoying, isn't it? I suspect that it might have something to do with your ISP closing the connection if you fulfill requirements to be classified as 'Idle' ie you may not have sent any connection requests on standard ports for xx seconds/minutes/hours/decades. Obviously something like this varies from ISP to ISP, but one way to get past it is to ping a remote host every minute or so while you're online. Either set a script to do it, or do it manually (advantage of the latter is you can do different ones - so it doesn't look like you're doing anything dodgy)
Or, and probably more likely to achieve the desired result, although less automate-able is to have an extra browser window open, and make occasional connecetions to random websites. More like to work as ISPs are more likely to monitor for connections on port 80 than any other port.
-- James Ogley, SuSE Linux UK Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley@suse.co.uk www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james@rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180)
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