From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 11:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAC514E0F for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11jp0W-000MrY-00; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA91607; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Alejandro Ramirez Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ppp questions In-Reply-To: <003f01bf27c2$f6771040$51a1fea9@megared.net.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: >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. Like i said, i see peak and average, but no connection speed. >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). So that means i don't need to enable it? > >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. Is it possible pppd would work better? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message