Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-11-02 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Do you have a phone on the same line? > > I was suffering a similar problem with my dialup account (it was > disconnecting after about 20 min all the time). I discovered that > apparently some older touch-tone telephones can cause enough >

Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Roger Salisbury
From: "Grant Parnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:56 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end. > ^@ is mnemonic for a null.

Re: [SLUG]  KPPP external modem  " unexpected disconnections"         forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Mark Canavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger I had a similar problem with my ISP. it sends a ping request as a heart beat. If nothing was returned it dropped out after 20 mins. My firewall was originally dropping ping request. I was using the monmotha firewall script http://monmotha.mp

Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Grant Parnell
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Do you have a phone on the same line? > > I was suffering a similar problem with my dialup account (it was > disconnecting after about 20 min all the time). I discovered that > apparently some older touch-tone telephones can cause enou

Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Grant Parnell
^@ is mnemonic for a null. It's my opinion that this isn't significant in your setup. You might want to add S2=255 to your modem init string if it's not there already. Some (dodgy) modems do not honour the 0.5 second guard time gap to the +++ escape sequence, thus anytime three plusses occur in

Re: [SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Hi Roger, Do you have a phone on the same line? I was suffering a similar problem with my dialup account (it was disconnecting after about 20 min all the time). I discovered that apparently some older touch-tone telephones can cause enough interference on the line to cause a disconection. Afte

[SLUG] KPPP external modem " unexpected disconnections" forced by remote end.

2003-10-31 Thread Roger Salisbury
Hi sluggers   Someone may had the very same  modem problem listed below.   IE  a "^@"  sequence sent from the remote end. (ISP=bigpond) I am running RedHat 9 and having trouble with frequent unexpected disconnections with a bigpond dialup account. Have tried different dial up 56 external mod