Re: dropped connections after 120 secs or so
Demetris Papallis (demetris@cylink.net)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:46:01 +0200 (EET)
No, they are using Win95 DUN. This was a coordinated attempt between me and the
user to find out what the problem is, since this particular user is having
random disconnection problems.
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> Maybe the user is dialling in with trumpet, which doesnt' shut down the
> PPP connection correctly, and just drops carrier.
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> > 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
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> > >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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