I connect to the internet over cables using pptp. Up untill Thursday night everything worked fine, at which point it just stopped connecting. A Long phone call to the ISP earthed that they performed a major upgrade (which the first denied for an hour and a half of course).
Anyway, to cut a long story shory, when I try to bring up the pptp connection, the pptp connection comes up, recieves local and remote IPs and DNS but then nothing will go over the connection. It later dies about a minute and a half later. I can't even ping the other side. The ISP say that they see the connection come up on their side, but they can't ping me and they can't help any further. I tried upgrading pptp from 1.5 to 1.7 but to no avail. I connection a windows machine and it connects fine, so it's not a hardware problem. The windows connecion uses PAP and no encryption or compression. I ran out of ideas and diagnostic options. The log from syslog when running both pptp and pppd in debug mode: Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pppd[25839]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0 Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pppd[25839]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pppd[25839]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp1 Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[main:pptp.c:276]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-Request' Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:738]: Received Start Control Connection Reply Jan 27 18:26:22 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:772]: Client connection established. Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 7 'Outgoing-Call-Request' Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:857]: Received Outgoing Call Reply. Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:896]: Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 33837). Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 1 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 2 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 3 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 4 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 5 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: PAP authentication succeeded Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: kernel does not support PPP filtering Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 6 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 7 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 8 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 9 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: replacing old default route to eth0 [172.29.208.1] Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: local IP address 89.0.9.77 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: remote IP address 172.26.255.17 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: primary DNS address 212.150.49.10 Jan 27 18:26:23 rice pppd[25839]: secondary DNS address 62.90.42.110 Jan 27 18:26:24 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 10 Jan 27 18:26:45 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 11 Jan 27 18:27:05 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 12 Jan 27 18:27:26 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 13 Jan 27 18:27:34 rice dnsmasq[442]: reading /etc/resolv.conf Jan 27 18:27:34 rice dnsmasq[442]: using nameserver 62.90.42.110#53 Jan 27 18:27:34 rice dnsmasq[442]: using nameserver 212.150.49.10#53 Jan 27 18:27:34 rice dnsmasq[442]: using local addresses only for domain luna.local Jan 27 18:27:46 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 14 Jan 27 18:27:51 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 15 Jan 27 18:28:02 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 16 Jan 27 18:28:05 rice pptp[25842]: anon log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:388]: accepting packet 17 Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:928]: Call disconnect notification received (call id 33837) Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:787]: Received Stop Control Connection Request. Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 4 'Stop-Control-Connection-Reply' Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:255]: Closing connection (shutdown) Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]: Sent control packet type is 12 'Call-Clear-Request' Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pptp[25844]: anon log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:78]: Closing connection (call state) Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pppd[25839]: Modem hangup Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pppd[25839]: Connect time 1.8 minutes. Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pppd[25839]: Sent 199745970 bytes, received 164 bytes. Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pppd[25839]: restoring old default route to eth0 [172.29.208.1] Jan 27 18:28:07 rice pppd[25839]: Connection terminated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]