From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 23 10:32:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25804 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 10:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [209.48.124.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA25796 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 10:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@tyger.inna.net) Received: (from tom@localhost) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11997; Sat, 23 May 1998 13:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980523133121.44909@tyger.inna.net> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 13:31:22 -0400 From: GothGeek Sysadmin To: Brian Somers Cc: julian@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** user-ppp has changed ! Reply-To: tom@inna.net References: <199805231234.NAA07729@awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199805231234.NAA07729@awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:34:57PM +0100 Organization: TBI, Ltd X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:34:57PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > did you test it against mpd? > > Anyway, the upshot of it all is that YES, PPP TALKS TO MPD OK (first > time too), but I have the following observations to make about mpd > (Archie cc'd): I've been using MPD for 9 months now on a 24x7 4modem link to my house and I have one observation to make that may or may not be helpfull. MPD is horrible about handling losing a link which means I turn off 3 modems whenever it rains because it can redial and reconnect faster then it can handle losing a link. Lose one of 4 modems and it takes usually 2 minutes to start sending packets again. Whats worse is the phonelines are bad enough to where under a good heavy file transfer I'll lose a modem on one particular line every few minutes. I'm using 2 freebsd 2.2.2 boxes running mpd 1b4. its a backwards setup which is why I dont just dial into my termservers. Its local call from work to home but at the time I installed it all it was not a local call back and dialout lines are still cheaper at the office then home. I never had a chance to do anything constructive about solving it so I never mentioned it before... was just happy that it worked at all :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Tom Arnold - the sunrise in the east every morning in my dreams, i - - SysAdmin - turn the music on and start to dance with all my friends- - TBI, Ltd - the sun shines on my way every night and every day and - -------------- takes the sorrows far away, so far away. -- X-Perience - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message