Daniel Martin wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dima wrote: > > > 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. > > > > For what it's worth, I get this after the other end has hung up because of > an idle timeout - for some reason pppd can't tell that the other end hung > up. For me, then, it's important to have those lcp echo requests (well, > only in so far as I'd like my machine to know whether or not it's > connected). I also sometimes get a "appear to have received our own > echo-request" error after the other end hangs up.
Just FYI, the reason you get a "appear to have received our own echo-request" is likely because after the connection is lost the modem goes back into "command" mode where it echoes back anything you type (or ppp sends). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
