Hello, I have some vague recollection about the dial up software sending "are you there messages?" to the ISP. The ISP that I used at the time didn't respond to these messsage and therefore after 20 "are you there messages?" the dial up software assumed it wasn't connected and terminated the connection. To fix this I had to amend some setting in ppp/options (not sure exactly as this is all about 5 years ago now) to stop it sending the "are you there?" message. Are there any error messages either in /var/log/messages that explain why the dial up application is dropping the connection? Cheers Chris On Tuesday 11 December 2007 01:42:43 John Rye wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:16:25 +1300
Ron Dean <rvdean(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
I'll try gnome-ppp and see if that helps I see that stupid mode has to be set as an option. Kppp is working but drops out very easily. Its on a Refugee family's computer I set up for them.
Just to add to dial-up thingies ...
Try setting your /etc/ppp/options to read as follows, it seems to help here with dealing with random drop-outs when connecting to Infogen, KiwiOnline and ClearNET.
==== Cut here ==== lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-max-configure 65 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 600 ==== Cut here ====
John
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