Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 12:54:35 +0900 From: Atsushi Murai <amurai@spec.co.jp> To: wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com Cc: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP and demand start Message-ID: <9507060354.AA00097@tama3.spec.co.jp.spec.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <9507051819.AA13800@eis16.philips.com>
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wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com (ED WOLPERT ) wrote: :>>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> 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? Try "timeout 0" :-- : 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. Atsushi. -- Atsushi Murai E-Mail: amurai@spec.co.jp SPEC Voice : +81-3-3833-5341 System Planning and Engineering Corp.
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