From: epoole@leotech.mv.com (Eric Poole) Subject: [Q] Why SLIP Drop Out? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 12:26:20
I have SLIP running reasonably well here using 0.99pl10 with some of
the
newer patches (am not at the system right now so can't be more
specific
than that right now), and everything seems to be running well except
...
Every now and then the SLIP connection just breaks and drops out for
no
reason.
The connection will stay up for hours, and then drop out in the
middle
of a session ... other times it will drop out with no one online ...
other times it will drop out three or four times in a half hour and
then
will stay up all night and all the next day.
Whenever it does drop out, I do a "ps gx" and "dip -v slipparm" is
still
shown as an active process. I have to kill it and then restart it
(I'm
sure there is an easier way to restart it but haven't looked deeply
enough into the readmes and man pages to figure it out).
Has anyone else seen this problem? Would the newer versions of the
kernel (pl12 or whatever) have anything in them to fix this or
address
this in any way?
Other than that one thing, SLIP is working very well here indeed.
But
that one thing is creating big headaches.
Please respond either here or (preferably) via e-mail, and I'll
summarize any e-mail responses for the net.
. . . . . ep
epoole@leotech.mv.com
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