Re: Restarting ADSL Connection Problem

From: alex (me_at_me.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:00:49 +1000

try kill -9
and restart it manually

"Tony Paulic" <tpaulic@gateway.paulic.home> wrote in message
news:slrncj43ur.k7q.tpaulic@gateway.paulic.home...
>I am running OpenBSD 3.5 and have a sympatico ADSL connection. I have been
>running
> OpenBSD for almost 2 years now with no problems. Recently, when my ADSL
> connection
> "hangs", I have been unable to restart it. In the past, I have always
> successfully
> used `kill -2 <pid_of_ppp>` to drop the current connection and reinitiate
> it.
> However, recently, this has stopped working. My pppoe connection is
> started via:
>
> /usr/sbin/ppp -ddial pppoe
>
> when running, `ps -ax | grep ppp` returns:
> 31978 ?? Is 0:00.25 /usr/sbin/ppp -ddial pppoe
> 11480 ?? I 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/pppoe -i tx0
>
> and `ifconfig tun0` returns:
> tun0: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1492
> inet xx.xx.xx.xx --> xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 0xffffffff
>
> when the connection "hangs" (no response to internet requests), both of
> the above
> commands still return the same answers. In the past, `kill -2 31978` would
> always
> restart ppp and my pppoe connection and all would be good.
>
> My questions are:
> 1) Am I restarting the ppp connection properly?
> 2) Any ideas on what may be happening?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ./ToZ
>

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