From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 11:23:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046A114BE9 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253] (may be forged)) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA49222; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:24:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <003f01bf27c2$f6771040$51a1fea9@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" , References: Subject: RE: ppp questions Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:21:29 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > 2 questions: > 1. 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. > 2. also, what difference does it make if i include 'delete all' in > ppp.linkup before 'add default HISADDR'? When you isue the "delete all" command, you are making sure that no weird routes are going to be used to your ppp connection, and when you are using the "add default HISADDR" command, you are making sure that the IP Address of your service provider its going to be used as a default gateway, and all of your traffic are going to be sent to that way. > And what difference does it make > to add 'enable dns'? It seems my connection works either way, I think that you are enabling that your DNS requests are going to be resolved by your service provider, instead of another DNS server, (Maybe an Internal one with no recursion enabled). > notwithstanding the dropped connections, which i still haven't figured > out... :( After that you make sure that your dropped connection its not caused by: 1.- An idle timeout in your configuration 2.- An idle timeout in your service provider. 3.- A forced disconnection from your service provider after a X minutes of connection. 4.- A bad quality in your phone line (too noisy). 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. > > -jonathon > Have Fun... Ales To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message