On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:47 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 16/07/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am sorry you are still having this problem. I thought you had already > > found a solution. Maybe its the bits are going right to left and not > > left to right (sorry a private joke related to Dotan being in Israel) > > Actually the router modem had abducted 3 bits and injured 7 more- the > router is retaliating. > > > I just tried something that might help. I pinged my router. No packets > > lost. If you do that you could eliminate traffic from your machine to > > the router. Then as was suggested a combination of ping and traceroute > > should pinpoint where on the route trace the packets are beginning to be > > lost. It seems to me that would localize the problem. > > I had run mtr many times, the router itself does have some loss, as do > other nodes in the system. So I'd like to connect the machine directly > to the router, but then I can't dial in to the ISP. Maybe someone here > could advise me on how to do that? This is my dial-in connection > information, taken from the routers' control panel: > WAN Type: L2TP > IP Mode: Dynamic IP Address > Server IP Address: Lns4.actcom.net.il > L2TP Account: etykot@CActcom > L2TP Password: SecretPassword > > Windows machines can dial in using the ISP's dialer, or using the > built-in windows dialer. > I am missing something. If the windows dialer can dial in why can't a dialer program on Linux like kppp? -- ======================================================================= Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx