From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 11:55:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA01265 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:55:19 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01256 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:54:58 -0700 Received: from relay.philips.nl (relay.philips.nl [130.144.65.1]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id LAA22094 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 11:54:52 -0700 Received: from knox.pcec.philips.com ([130.140.74.243]) by relay.philips.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9-950414) with SMTP id UAA21527; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 20:20:45 +0200 Received: from eis16.philips.com by knox.pcec.philips.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29304; Wed, 5 Jul 95 14:19:57 EDT Received: by eis16.philips.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA13800; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 14:19:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 14:19:57 -0400 From: wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com (ED WOLPERT ) Message-Id: <9507051819.AA13800@eis16.philips.com> To: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <18527.9507051611@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> (message from Nik Clayton on Wed, 5 Jul 1995 17:11:23 +0100 (BST)) Subject: Re: PPP and demand start Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton writes: -Nik> and PPP will then dial out as and when necessary. If I do this -Nik> however, PPP starts up, announces that it is in auto mode and -Nik> becomes a daemon (preety much what I expected). But if I then -Nik> try and ping, telnet or netscape out I get told that the network -Nik> is unreachable. PPP does not attempt to dial out. I had the same problem... it would only attempt to dial out when I pinged the gateway (ppp provider). However, after the initial session, and after the ppp daemon closed the connection due to timeout, pinging a host in my /etc/hosts file (and others) would re-open the connection. A different problem I have: The timeout would occur even with an active connection. It seems that if I don't keep pinging something while I'm connected (Either through an 'slurp' or long ftp session) it will timeout. Most strange. Ideas anyone? -- Virtually, Edward Wolpert ------------------------------- "The best way out is always wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com | through." - Robert Frost wolpert@utk.edu | =============================== 'Give me a shell, and I'll Truth is what you believe. | give you the world.' (tm) ------------------------------- Fnord.