[plug] Modem Issues

[Bill Kenworthy]

Try and force a much slower connection rate for the modem and see what
happens.  Anything in syslog?

BillK


On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 23:54, Jonathon Bates wrote:
> Heya guys,
> I was at a clients residence today setting up a gateway
> with a dialup account. Now I could get the box to dial,
> get out going data going through fine (for a period of time).
> After which the connection just went completely dead. I would
> try and ping a site, and not even the SD light would flash (which
> I found strange). When I was running a ping command, it would
> originally send out roughly 20 packets and then die. We changed the 
> modem cord, and then managed to get to 50 packets before dying.
> I could ping the IP address of hte modem without a problem, so I am
> not sure if it could be the serial connection, the serial port, the
> machine itself with a screwy memory block or something. Or the modem
> itself having problems with a few of the commands (eg hangup...). I
> truly don't think it is the phone line as during the dialup it connected
> really quickly, with no retrains.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> Batesy
> PS I have got PCI serial card for the box and I will be trying a new modem
> on it on thursday.
>