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Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem with my router, > > it keeps disconnecting, if i then reset it, it fires up goes through > what ever sequence it does when it starts, it then just stops and the > lnk and act lights go out, and i lose connection. > > i DO NOT understand why this is happening or if it could be a fault, if > it is I am going to be offline as I can't afford a new router > > if i goto a console and do > psutton@desktop:~$ who > > i get the following > psutton :0 2008-12-14 21:48 > psutton pts/0 2008-12-14 21:56 (:0.0) > > does this mean i have 2 users connecting or does it mean i have someone > connecting from the out site, what does pts/0 mean, yes I have tried > to look it up with man, but do NOT really understand what it telling me > > thanks for any help > > Paul Hi Paul, I have no experience with messing about with Linux on routers - it's on my todo list. :) However, I have had my fair-share of experiences with dodgy routers that exhibit similar traits. Certainly with some awkward VxWorks systems it has tended to be down to poor memory management - if too many things were being recorded to the log, and the log wasn't cleared often enough (and it wouldn't clear automatically - manual only!) then it'd run out of RAM. I have also seen routers with, essentially a dodgy RAM module installed - anything that tried to use this particular bit of RAM would cause it to freeze. As far as I can tell, the "pts" is a "pseudoterminal". For example, a command-line session within a GUI. The GUI is running on the real terminal tty7 and the command-line sessions are proving terminal-like access - pseudoterminals. Your output above would suggest that you have a real terminal in session (:0) and a pseudoterminal running within it (hence the :0.0 at the end). Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html