[plug] PPP connection being idle

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Jan 31 01:52:28 WST 2003


> Sometimes my PPP connection is 'stalled' as the pppstatus tells me. It 
> is ushally for 2 seconds and i was wondering why this happens. I am 
> after all having lots of traffic constantly moving

"stalled" just means nothing flowing right now. If you're downloading 
something it'll be due to a brief upstream throughput stutter, set of 
dropped packets causing tcp/ip to back off heavily... something like 
that. Nothing to stress about.

Craig



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