-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi James. Is your DSL on a segrated or shared line, aka piggybacking on the phoneline of has a seperate dedicated line for the DSL? If it's piggybacking you might want to get a filter, or there are some devices (or perhaps a program) that periodically pings the servers, or similar, to fool it into thinking there's activity when you not (e.g. Idle and no packets, data exchanged triggers a disconnect after a certain time by the ISP, especially true with dial up's that do this to conserve bandwidth and ip addresses). Also, I'm guessing here, because I have a cable modem/line that is in an always on state. So, when I do get similar behavior (similar to a virtual disconnect) I issue "rcinetd restart" and that sometimes helps. - From the logs it looks like you being disconnected automatically by the ISP for being Idle. Then there also seems to be a problem (potentially on your/SuSE end) with reconnect because you machine didn't issue the disconnect the ISP did. So, perhaps, this is causing the system to issue some sort of secondary call (instead of the default connect request/protocals) and this is recognized as a second machine/connection by you ISP and hence it refuses to allow a connect. It could also be due to old phones with shaky signal strengths, and when your idle you lose your connect due to this... I don't know - just tossing about a few ideas. I'm just guessing here. There are far more Network capable and experienced on the list than I. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fChq7WVLiDrqeksRAlxvAKDeqKir62MtYBC93sce/z7I+V7gFQCgv8Ut A6l/vkD8lOB/nF6K87UQw5A= =TzJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----