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itayf

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 30

ADSL connection stops working every sometime

Hi!

I configured my ADSL connection with the pppoe tools, eth0 configured as "eth0 up" and I succeed to connect the internet.
My problem is that every sometime like an hour the internet connection just stop working for a few seconds.

While surfing, suddenly internet pages are not loaded (firefox stuck is "looking up....").
After a few more seconds (from 30 up to 1 minute) everything is fine again and I can keep surfing the internet.
This happens something like every hour...

When it happened (in the very first seconds) I ran "ping X" and ping was just stuck with no output (I killed it).
Then I ran pppoe-status and everything seems to be fine:

[itay@myhost ~]$ pppoe-status
pppoe-status: Link is up and running on interface ppp0
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:88.155.95.145  P-t-P:88.155.95.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:82005 (80.0 Kb)  TX bytes:39861 (38.9 Kb)

After a few seconds I run those commands again and their output was:

[itay@myhost ~]$ pppoe-status
pppoe-status: Link is attached to ppp0, but ppp0 is down
[itay@myhost ~]$ ping X
ping: unknown host X

Sometimes running pppoe-status again prints:

pppoe-status: Link is down -- could not find interface corresponding to pppd pid 4703

After 30-60 seconds, their output was fine again and everything was back (without any change of mine).

I check the connection on WinXP and it didn't happen, it also didn't happen with other distros...

Here are some lines from /var/log/everything.log that may help:

May  7 15:41:09 myhost NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
May  7 15:41:09 myhost eth0: Transmit timed out, status 00000000, resetting...
May  7 15:41:09 myhost Rx ring ccb66000:  80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000
May  7 15:41:09 myhost Tx ring ccb67000:  80000000 0000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000
May  7 15:41:13 myhost NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
May  7 15:41:13 myhost eth0: Transmit timed out, status 00000000, resetting...
May  7 15:41:13 myhost Rx ring ccb66000:  80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000
May  7 15:41:13 myhost Tx ring ccb67000:  0000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000 80000000

My driver is:

[itay@myhost ~]$ hwdetect --show-net
NET    : fealnx mii ppp_generic slhc

What's the problem? What should I do?
Thanks,
Itay.

* X is an existed website that ping usually works with.

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: ADSL connection stops working every sometime

May not be the solution, but you could have problems if you configure eth0 as dhcp (as their is most likely no dhcp server present).

itayf

Member

Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 30

Re: ADSL connection stops working every sometime

up! (still have this problem...)

itayf

Member

Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 30

Re: ADSL connection stops working every sometime

How can I change the driver I use?

itayf

Member

Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 30

Re: ADSL connection stops working every sometime

I still have this problem...
I found from an old document that the problem might be in the driver I use (fealnx): http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/eepro100 … 02631.html
I tried to install myson803 from here: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/ but I got a lot of errors during compilation..

Do you have any idea what can I do?
Thanks,
Itay.