Davy Leon wrote: > I'm on dialup and have some question to ask. I have an script wich dials > automatically to my ISP to get my email using fetchmail from all my > email accounts. > > Sometimes after the ppp conection is stablished ok and running for a > couple of minuts, it just dies. The modem is still conected but I cannot > ping anybody. It doesn't happen all the time, but happens very often. > So, the last action of the script is to hang up the modem. When this > happens, the result is that the script hangs up but only after every > conections I should do gets time out. The result is a phone bill, an > internet bill and no email at all. I need a method to detect when this > happens and simply disconect and run the conection script again. What do > you advice me? Still connected but cannot ping on dial-up shortly after the initial connection sounds to me like misconfigured flow control. Some things to check (in roughly descending order of usefulness or ascending order of desperation): - Try using "asyncmap 0xa0000" as part of your PPP configuration. If that doesn't work, then try out "default-asyncmap". - Check the configuration of the modem to find out if the wrong sort of flow control is enabled. - Try using "record filename" to get a fairly low- level recording of the session, and see if there are patterns in the problem. - Try using "kdebug 7" to enable verbose debugging in the kernel, where character I/O occurs. - Join the 20th century and get off dial-up. ;-} -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
