It may also be a problem with your service provider -- I had a problem (back when I still used PPP) where the connection was getting dropped mysteriously, and [after much frustration trying to figure out what was happening] it turned out my provider didn't support TCP header compression; turning off that feature in PPP made everything work.
Apparently windows PPP clients didn't use header compression, so they didn't consider it an issue ... -miles -- Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehqvp1r3....@catnip.gol.com