Thanks Dave, I'm sorry that it's taken so long but I have been doing other things as well. It's starting to make sense and, of course, you were right.
Enabling 'debug' in /etc/ppp/options and running 'pon primus' elicits '/usr/sbin/pppd: invalid numeric parameter '<9>' for idle option' in syslog. I have tried them from 2 to 10 with no difference. I have disabled 'demand' and 'persist' in the Advanced section of 'pppconfig' and have enabled 'demand' but not 'persist' in /etc/ppp/options. What am I missing here? Adam Bogacki P.O. Box 38, Earlwood, NSW 2206, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [current ISP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Fitch Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2002 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Install successful; connection dies @ 1 min. On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:50:55PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I've had a trouble-free install of Deb 2.2r4 but the net connection > consistently dies after about a minute meaning that I cannot update or > dist-upgrade. I had initially disabled 'demand dialing' and 'persist' in > pppconfig to prevent the feedback cycle of being cut off by the ISP and > automatic redial which I had been caught in before ... I later enabled > 'persist' but am still being cut off as before. > > Can anyone suggest a fix? any errors in syslog about it? if not, enable pppd debugging ('debug' option in /etc/ppp/options I think) and do it again and see what errors you get. if it's only after 1 min, sounds like you're not authenticating properly or the lcp echo timeout things are disconnecting it. Read up on lcp echo timeout/interval options to pppd if that's the case. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
