Over the weekend I tried out a new external 33.6 modem (as an upgrade to my old 14.4 internal). It didn't take me long, before I had it working with my Debian 1.3.1 box - thanks Debian. The one major problem is that - when I down/up load relatively large things (like most web pages) - the modem eventually hangs (the RX light will no longer flicker) and when I 'poff' it will not even hang up the line (I have to turn the modem off and on again to get it to work further). One thing that has changed is that my ISP has also taken this last weekend to move half of his subnet to another town. This meant (according to him) that I needed to make my sub netmask 255.255.255.128 instead of 255.255.255.0. I managed to get my netmask to be 255.255.255.128 by using 'netmask 255.255.255.128' in the /etc/ppp.options_out file. This did not solve my problem. Does anyone out there have any idea what I need to do? Could I have a flaky modem? I have not worked with a 33.6 modem before - I still have the default speed set in /etc/ppp.options_out (38400) - does this need to change?
Thanks for any assistance, Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
