From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 14:46: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34F914A1D for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 14:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a037.otenet.gr [195.167.115.37]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA00110 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:45:59 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 5884 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Nov 1999 14:05:03 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp questions References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 06 Nov 1999 16:05:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jonathon McKitrick's message of "Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: <86904bu35d.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick writes: > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > >>> how can i see the transfer rate or connect speed if i miss the one >>> during login? 'show modem' shows the peak and average, but not the >>> connection speed. >> >> I think that you can see it with the show phy command. > > Like i said, i see peak and average, but no connection speed. Try grepping for CONNECT in your /var/log/ppp.log* files, add or subtract a few head(1) and/or tail(1) invocations. >> You can use the "ppp -ddial" argument, some guys have soved his >> problems with this, and not just for remaking the call to your >> service provider when the link has been dropped, but they say that >> the had none reconnection in several days after they use this >> argument. I am customarily using "ppp -ddial" and because of the awful phone lines in my area, I have seen some redials. But it works fine both ways, with the -ddial option, or manually. You s > Is it possible pppd would work better? Better in which ways? In matters of reconnections? Nahhh, pppd died because of my awful line quality just as often as user ppp dies now. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message