[Devil-Linux-discuss] connection bounce problem - help

[Leslie H. <les...@wo...>]

I am currently using DL-1.2.13,  shorewall and PPP-OE on my firewall.

In the past I would see 10 to 15 days or more without a connection drop. 
A few months age I started to see a problem where the connection would 
drop for a few seconds and then re-connect every eight (8) hours.

I created a shell script to extract data from the system messages file 
and calculate the connect time. The result shows that the connect times 
are consistently 480.0 or 479.9 minutes each time.

When I contact my ISP (AT&T DSL) they swear they have nothing to do with 
the problem and it must be a problem in my firewall/router.  I don't 
believe them, but I must check.  I have searched the list archives and 
my local configuration.  I see no reports in the mailing-list and have 
found nothing in the configuration that should cause this problem.

Is there anything in DL or the PPP configuration that could cause this 
problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Les