odd ppp bug
Britton (fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:07:34 -0900 (AKST)
I have been experiencing an odd problem with ppp on my machine. I have an
attack dialer set up, and for the most part it works. Every now and then
however, I forget to turn it off, and it rediales for days. After many
hours or days, connections start to fail every time, the modem ringing
then making it's customary screeching noises, then going beep-Beep-BOOP
in deceending tones until timeout. The strange thing is that this keeps
happening even after I kill pppd and chat. I assumed this was some
defensive measure of my ISP, but one day I called them to beg for mercy
and they promised they knew nothing about it. They told me to reboot my
machine, and I kept from laughing, barely. But it turned out they were
right, reboot and the problem goes away. I don't know if this is a bug
lurking in the kernel or if there is a daemon I don't know
about gone wrong somewhere or what. If anyone has any ideas or can
reccomend something to do to get more information I would love to hear
about it.
Britton Kerin
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