--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like you need to do a bit more work to see where in the system the
> problem lies. When the modem "seems to stop responding" --
>
> do apps other than Netscape work successfully? E.g., from
> an xterm or a vt, can you still ping the ISP's end
> of the connection (by address? by hostname?)?
Nope. When the modem stops working, all network traffic times out. ping
still considers the network reachable, but no packets get through. Hmmm. . . I
guess I should so no packets come back.
> do any informative messages get written to your logs?
Can you suggest which logs I could look at and how to turn them on?
> is there any pattern to the failures beyond what you have
> said? E.g., does Netscape get stuck at DNS lookups?
> Is it always at the same URL (or within a set of
> related URLs)?
There is no pattern like that. If something is doing a lookup, that fails,
if a page is in the middle of loading, it stalls and never resumes. I only
visit a few web pages, but I can't think what they would have in common.
(yahoo, google, slashdot, cnet, etc)
> You say "this happens most often when I run netscape". When
> else does it happen and what are the apps trying to
> do when they seem to fail?
That is the only thing I've been able to notice. I believe there have been a
couple instances when I've not been running netscape and this has happened, but
I cannot be sure.
Thanks,
Ben
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> At 07:38 AM 2/26/00 -0800, Ben Holm wrote:
> > I'm having a few problems with my modem, and I was hoping someone
> >could help me out. I am running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 development
> >installation on a Pentium II 233 w/ 64MB RAM, and 128 MB swap (on).
> >I'm using KPPP to dial in to my ISP and I have a Motorola ModemSurfr.
> >My problem occurs after I connect to my ISP. I launch netscape, and
> >soon after that, or sometimes a long time after that, my modem seems
> >to stop responding. Nothing is downloaded from the net, but my modem
> >lights indicate a carrier. When I click disconnect on KPPP, the
> >modem holds the carrier for several minutes. Because of this, I
> >suspect the problem is between my PC and the modem rather than with
> >the connection to the ISP. Also, this happens most often when I run
> >netscape. If I don't use netscape things are a lot more reliable.
> >Unfortunately, since I'm using Yahoo mail, netscape is the best
> >browser I know of for Linux.
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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