pppd freezing

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:18:20 +0200


hi,

On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:15:15PM -0900, Greg wrote:
> No IRQ sharing Gert, IRQ's 3,4,5 and 7 for the serial ports
> no sound card or printer, there is a PCI cards for eth0(IRQ10?)
> and video(?), a HD(14) and CD(15), but I'm sure 3 4 5 7 are
> alone, It's been
> working fine for about 18 months before this recent change,
> so I'm tipping I've mucked up a config problem with pppd or
> mgetty?

Hmmm, so what did you change?  If you didn't change anything, a "sudden
breakage" would be highly unusual...

> oh I also use the "User Utilities prog" for accounting.?
> and used "setspeed" (on bootup), for 57600. 

Well, this wouldn't harm, but it isn't necessary either - mgetty and pppd
can do 57600 just fine.

gert

> > On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 05:11:32PM -0900, Greg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Installed mgetty recently, great stuff, but now I've been
> > > having a minor drama where my dial-up users are complaining
> > > about their connection "going to sleep" after a while.?
> > >
> -- 
>  Greg
>  ICQ# 17606315
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