Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 00:40:13 -0700 | From | Mark Hamstra <> | Subject | Re: PPP failure |
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Alan,
I've been experiencing poor PPP performance for a while now (it's always been bad --line noise, I think-- so I wasn't sure if it has actually gotten worse with the last dozen or so kernels or if it was my imagination), including frequently dropped connections; but tonight I had a new experience: the link 'froze' in the middle of a POP mail transfer to my ISP. I've appended /var/log/messages output to this note. 'dip -k' and then 'kill'ing the pppd PID didn't resolve things. I then -HUP'ed inetd and pppd, after which I could re-establish the link. I only reconnected once despite the duplicated IP address negotiation messages at the end of the /var/log/messages transcript; is this normal? Incidentally, my ISP is using OSF/1 on a DEC Alpha.
Whoa! More weirdness! I just checked my outgoing mail logs for the entry that I was in the midst of sending when PPP failed. There are three complete and identical entries for this message. They are time-stamped 23:32:51, 23:34:03, and 23:44:47. The last of these is from after I re-established my connection to my ISP and re-sent the message. I only tried to send the message once before that.
Kernel: pre2.0.7 ppp: 2.2.0f modules: 1.3.69f kerneld: running, but I insmod'ed slhc, ppp, and bsd_comp by hand
Mark
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May 22 22:27:56 sullivan kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California May 22 22:27:59 sullivan kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) May 22 22:27:59 sullivan kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. May 22 22:27:59 sullivan kernel: PPP line discipline registered. May 22 22:28:09 sullivan kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered May 22 22:29:47 sullivan kernel: registered device ppp0 May 22 22:29:48 sullivan pppd[231]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 May 22 22:29:48 sullivan pppd[231]: Using interface ppp0 May 22 22:29:48 sullivan pppd[231]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua2 May 22 22:29:54 sullivan pppd[231]: local IP address 204.157.98.209 May 22 22:29:54 sullivan pppd[231]: remote IP address 204.157.98.50
[duplicate mail log entries here]
May 22 23:36:14 sullivan kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=240) May 22 23:36:21 sullivan su: mhamstra on /dev/ttyp0 May 22 23:36:24 sullivan pppd[231]: Terminating on signal 15. May 22 23:38:13 sullivan pppd[231]: Terminating on signal 15. May 22 23:38:13 sullivan pppd[231]: write: Interrupted system call May 22 23:38:32 sullivan kernel: Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 May 22 23:38:32 sullivan kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. May 22 23:38:32 sullivan kernel: Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 May 22 23:40:48 sullivan dip[413]: DIP: tty: set_state: Invalid argument May 22 23:41:24 sullivan pppd[231]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 22 23:41:25 sullivan pppd[231]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 22 23:41:25 sullivan pppd[231]: Exit. May 22 23:42:10 sullivan pppd[421]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 May 22 23:42:10 sullivan pppd[421]: Using interface ppp0 May 22 23:42:10 sullivan pppd[421]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua2 May 22 23:42:16 sullivan pppd[421]: local IP address 204.157.98.88 May 22 23:42:16 sullivan pppd[421]: remote IP address 204.157.98.10 May 22 23:42:23 sullivan pppd[421]: local IP address 204.157.98.88 May 22 23:42:23 sullivan pppd[421]: remote IP address 204.157.98.10 May 22 23:42:25 sullivan pppd[421]: local IP address 204.157.98.88 May 22 23:42:25 sullivan pppd[421]: remote IP address 204.157.98.10
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