On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, J.Lorec wrote:

> > I once had a similar problem and wrote the following two very short shell
>
> Of course this is just a quick & dirty workaround but it could help in some
> way. Thanks anyway.
> Just a question: you said you had once this problem; how did you solve this?
> Hardware, ISP, OS (I do really like netbsd) or even phone line migration?

It was really strange: The IDE hard drive of that machine was failing.
NetBSD complained about lost interrupts and discovered soft errors.
Sometimes it degraded communications to that drive to PIO Mode. When the
errors occured, everything was still working - except the Internet
connection. The solution was to replace the bad hard drive.

Until that time I had seen other strange errors in conjunction with hard
disk errors, but nothing ever had any impact on the PPPoE link.

Bye, K&K,
T-Zee
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