On Thursday, 18 September, 2003 06:36, Basil Chupin wrote:
Bernd wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 September, 2003 17:30, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 09/18/2003 06:37 AM, Bernd wrote:
Make sure that your options file is edited properly, and that the line "plugin passwordfd.so" is in your /ppp/peers/kppp file.
It is, and is being loaded each time pppd starts.
Are you sure? You said you were using kinternet and wvdial.
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In using KInternet as a dialer, this is how the connect process begins:
Starting connection. (2003-09-17 17:00:56 PDT) pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.42 pppd: --> Initializing modem. pppd: --> Sending: ATZ pppd: OK etc.......
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What this is leading to is that when you go to use Linux and the init string "you" issue, ATZ, only resets the modem to whatever is stored in the Profile 0 - ie, ATZ copies what is in Profile0 into the Active Profile which is the profile that will be used to initialise the modem to make the outgoing call and to connect to your ISP. Now, you just don't know what the heck is in Profile0 (unless you look using the AT&V command in a terminal program). But the best way to always know what the modem will be initialised with is to put the string in yourself. Where do you put it?
<serious snip> SORRY! If you notice the last line of the log above, well, that's me saying "etc......". I only included a part of the log as the process begins, to show that yes indeed passwordfd.so is being loaded. There's considerably more, including the -full- init string that I copied from the windoze default setup, and verified to the modem manufacturers list of commands. I have used the default init strings from windoze and placed this in wvdial.conf and Yast modem setup. I have used the defaults from wvdialconf, and Yast modem setup, these two being the same. I have also altered all these strings with other commands listed in the manufacturers manual, that may be appropriate to eliminate disconnect due to line noise and idle time, as well as others. None of this has made ANY difference in my connect time in SuSE. <snip>
When reading your message(s) containing what your log(s) are showing it occurred to me that you were being disconnected around the hour and the 1/2 hour mark - eg. you don't stay on-line longer that 59.4 mins and it just happens that you logged-on just past the hour.
I've already looked at that also, from previous logs. I thought I had a pattern related to a cron job, but not so. This just happens to be the output and times of these sessions. I have the same results no matter where on the minute hand I begin my session. I get disconnected at fairly random intervals, but never exceed 59.4 minutes of connect time.
What I am wondering about is whether:
(1) your ISP pings you around the 1/2 and 1 hour times to see if you are still on-line (mine pings me on the hour every hour) and if I don't respond the ISP disconnects me because he thinks I am no longer active; and
I get dumped at random intervals, and exactly the same way, whether I am actively downloading or idle, and whether or not I echo lcp packets.
(2) whether you have something set in your modem, say, some kind of timer which disconnects you after something does not happen. I don't know your modem so I am guessing. However, there is one setting that one should be aware of and that is that there is a parameter (%E on most modems, but not all) which controls Fallback/Fallforward and also another one which controls at which baud rate the modem will disconnect when you are on a bad, noisy telephone line. The Fallback/Fallforward parameters comes into play when the phone line is bad and it allows the modem to retrain with the remote modem as the quality of the line decreases or improves (and here it is possible to set the modem to only FallBACK and never FallFORWARD! - a trap for young players); and when the quality of the phone line gets so bad that the throughput of your data reaches a certain low level (set you you) then the modem will disconnect to save you money on long distance calls.
Hmmm! Just looked, don't see it in the manual. Do see min/max connect speeds. I'm using all the others that could misinterpret line noise and miscellaneous glitches as a drop. I'll keep looking for other commands that I missed. Thanks!!! Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery