Re: [LUG] annoying modem

[Robin Cornelius <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Marvell wrote:

> Robin Cornelius wrote:
>  
>
> > Whats the physical phone line like? Can you hear any cracks or pops on 
> > the line at all? these will up set modems, but you need good hearing 
> > (unless it is really bad!) to hear the noise. There is a free automated 
> > line test from BT as well look in the phone book in the info section and 
> > you can test your own line (to some extent, but it has to be pretty bad 
> > to fail).
> >    
>
> The phone line is fine. This has happened with multiple phone lines at
> different addresses and with different serial and phone cables.
>
>
>  
Well that rules that out!

Have you tried adding debug to the pppd.options file 
/etc/ppp/ppp.options?, if i recall and looking for any naughtyness from 
pppd in the syslog. You might have a LCP (link control protocol) 
problem, ie not getting a LCP ack and hanging the connection, i had this 
once, but the syslog *should* tell you more and indicate a direction to 
investigate..

Robin(@work)




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