Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?
I've got a weird one, folks.
I've got a debian slink box serving as router for a network connected
to the internet by a dialup ppp connection. It does some masquerading
for the other systems on the local network, which include another
slinkbox and a redhat 5.2 system.
Yesterday, following the link:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/03/20/1158230&pid=0#35 ,
reading with netscape 4.07 on the redhat 5.2 system,
killed my ppp connection to the internet from my slink router.
This happened reproducibly (5 times) when I hit that particular page
(not a couple other pages at slashdot), at around 64K of download. I
sent lots of other test stuff over the ppp connection with no
problems.
Is there a ghost in the machine? How could that happen? Is this a
freak coincidence or the tickling/exploit of a pppd bug? It there an
escape sequence embedded in the transfer that could reset the modem?
Perhaps I am just a victim of a freak coincidence.
Thanks for any ideas,
nathan
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Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics -
Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical
Research Institute - Hopewell Building 3B - P.O. Box 5400, Princeton,
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