I've got a weird one, folks. I've got a debian slink box serving as router for a network connected to the internet by a dialup ppp connection. It does some masquerading for the other systems on the local network, which include another slinkbox and a redhat 5.2 system.
Yesterday, following the link: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/03/20/1158230&pid=0#35 , reading with netscape 4.07 on the redhat 5.2 system, killed my ppp connection to the internet from my slink router. This happened reproducibly (5 times) when I hit that particular page (not a couple other pages at slashdot), at around 64K of download. I sent lots of other test stuff over the ppp connection with no problems. Is there a ghost in the machine? How could that happen? Is this a freak coincidence or the tickling/exploit of a pppd bug? It there an escape sequence embedded in the transfer that could reset the modem? Perhaps I am just a victim of a freak coincidence. Thanks for any ideas, nathan -- Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute - Hopewell Building 3B - P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 - 609 818-6568 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
