In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I received this last night:
>
>Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames
>connection terminated
In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options.
Comment them out.
>What does this mean?
ppp sends out echo-requests to see if the link is up. If it doesn't
receive replies it assumes the link is down and terminates.
Some servers out there don't understand echo-requests, looks like
your ISP has one of those.
> I had to reboot because my box quit seeing my
>modem. setserial would say /dev/modem, unknown UART, 0x2f8 irq 3 with
>`setserial /dev/modem`. It is an internal Best Data uses dip switches
>and has served me faithfully for many moons. Is there some way to reset
>a modem without a coldboot (which this required, reboot did no good)?
I'd say the problem is somewhere else... You shouldn't use /dev/modem
unless it's a pcmcia modem or something. Use /dev/ttyS? instead.
HTH
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