Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00:15 -0400 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Doug White" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Jeff Kletsky" <Jeff@Wagsky.com> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp -auto -alias and 1st connection w/ dynamic IP Message-ID: <199810070400.AAA11627@laker.net>
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > >> With an ISP that provides dynamically-assigned IP numbers, I am observing that >> >> ppp -auto -alias sf >> >> will dial properly when a command such as >> >> telnet some.outside.host >> >> is issued, but the connection is not established. Once the link is up, >> everything seems to function "correctly." (telnet "immediately" connects) > >This is generally because telnet times out before ppp connects. It's a >fact of -auto life. :) Can't the timeout be increased ?? > >> My guess is that the packets which caused the dial to occur are >> (incorrectly) aliased to the "last" IP number assigned to the interface. >> When the link comes up, the interface's new address is different -- the >> return packets are not recognized as destined for the PPP-client machine >> (not to mention that the ISP's routers are sending the packet to another >> machine!). > >Another fact of -auto life. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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