On Sat, 19 Oct 1996 demetris@cylink.net wrote:
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 96 13:36:35
> From: demetris@cylink.net
> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: dropped connections after 120 secs or so
>
> Just adding my story to this problem. We are Running PM2ER's with 3.3.3, and are using Multitech
> Racks. This random disconnection problem has been going on for a long time now. Trying to trace
> the problem I monitor the PM output with debug set to 0x51. I noticed that when a particular
> user that complained about this, got disconnected, I didn't see the usual
>
> Received LCP_TERMINATE_REQUEST on port S2 of 0 bytes containing:
> 05 06 00 04
> Sending LCP_TERMINATE_ACK to port S2 of 4 bytes containing:
> 06 02 00 04
>
> rather he just lost connection with no request being sent to the PM. Looking in the radius
> (merit) logfiles, to find the reason for disconnection I saw that it was reported as
> Lost-Carrier. So, does this point to the telco and line noise?? Most probably. But could there
> be another reason that is PM dependent?? Megazone, any ideas??
>
> demetris
>
> >We are a small ISP running Portmaster 2E-30s with radius authentication.
> >We are running ComOS 3.3.2c1 on our Portmaster, and FreeBSD 2.1.5 on
> >our radius server. We are using USR Sportsters (28.8) of both the "new"
> >and "old" varieties. We have radius accounting enabled.
> >
> >We have a lot of customers who complain that they frequently get
> >disconnected within the first couple of minutes of being
> >connected. If the connection lasts 5 minutes, it will last forever,
> >but frequently the customer will be disconnected several times
> >during the first 5 minutes. The problem doesn't seem tied to any
> >particular set of modems on my end.
> >
> >Where should we look for problems? The fact that the customer can
> >eventually connect reliably suggests to me that the problem is on
> >my end, but I'm not sure if it's our modems or our portmaster or
> >our radius server that causes the problem?
> >
> >Any suggestions?
>
>
>
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