active network connection stops working...

[charles zeitler]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> >
>
> Looks to be correct.  I double checked in Fedora 10 and Fedora 11 and it is
> about the same.  I did not check selinux contexts though :(
>
> You are connecting via dialup or wireless broadband?


 DSL

>
> How long does the connection last?


 seems to vary  ( with each installation )


>  If you do a restart ?
> something like
> # service NetworkMangager stop
> # service NetworkManager start
>

doesn't help.

>
> take a look at output of
> # ifconfig -a


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:B5:BB:49:C7
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:b5ff:febb:49c7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:39 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1636 (1.5 KiB)  TX bytes:2556 (2.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:76.214.54.232  P-t-P:151.164.182.119
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:54 (54.0 b)  TX bytes:54 (54.0 b)


> and/or system logs to find what is causing this.  also dmesg can see if a
> driver or kernel module caused the stoppage?
>

dmesg doesn't seem to be much help, but i found something i cropped from
messages:

Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: Warning: can't open options file
/root/.ppprc: Permission denied
Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppd[1964]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
Jul 22 22:29:00 cthuga pppoe[1965]: PPP session is 2563 (0xa03)
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: PAP authentication succeeded
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: local  IP address 76.236.148.89
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: remote IP address 151.164.182.119
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: primary   DNS address 68.94.156.1
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1964]: secondary DNS address 68.94.157.1
Jul 22 22:29:01 cthuga pppd[1972]: Can't execute /etc/ppp/ip-up: Permission
denied
Jul 22 22:29:02 cthuga ntpd[1512]: Listening on interface #5 ppp0,
76.236.148.89#123 Enabled

i looked for /root/.ppprc , to stat it, but it doesn't exist.




>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
> charles zeitler

-- 

   Do What Thou Wilt
       Shall  Be
     The Whole  of
        The Law

     -Aleister Crowley
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20090723/e2e96a35/attachment-0001.htm>