[plug] Modem disconnects

[Mark J Gaynor]

It seems the connection is stable, as you connect for 114 minutes, is this
the
same for each disconnection. If it is, then you either have a
setting/process that
is killing the connection on a regular basis. Is there another service or
phone
across the line, this may be the cause. Some phones charge a capacitor from
the line and this causes disruption to pppd and usually long enough to time
out.

Your phone provider may see a line that appears to have hung and resets the
line.

This is just off the top of my head without knowing anything more.


Mark
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On 28/11/2005 at 2:30 PM doodli wrote:

>My serial Modem keeps on disconnecting and my ISP said it is my end 
>hanging up.
>Status is: connected
>pppd[0]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>pppd[0]: Modem hangup
>pppd[0]: Connection terminated.
>pppd[0]: Connect time 114.2 minutes.
>pppd[0]: Sent 1938912 bytes, received 18273866 bytes.
>Status is: disconnecting
>pppd[0]: Terminating on signal 15.
>Status is: disconnecting
>pppd[0]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 9940), status = 0x0
>Status is: disconnected
>pppd[0]: Connect time 114.2 minutes.
>pppd[0]: Sent 1938912 bytes, received 18273866 bytes.
>pppd[0] died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code 16)
>
>Have quickly searched google and the
>Terminating on signal 15.
>
>Error seems well known but nobody seems to know the why it happens.
>Anybody have any ideas
>Wally
>doodli at beagle.com.au
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