Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:43:48 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Australian 3G ppp.conf Message-ID: <20100712203650.T63106@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20100712100158.GF27065@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1278572030.4c3575feb972f@webmail.netspace.net.au> <20100712081619.GD27065@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100712190941.X63106@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20100712100158.GF27065@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Jul-12 19:43:23 +1000, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > # Ludicrous number of retries to try and convince it to work without MS NBNS > > > set ipcpretry 3 50 > > > >What happens without and with this? As I read ppp(8), it could take up > >to 50 IPCP configreqs at 3 seconds to negotiate IP and/or DNS addresses? > > My experience was that the link would sometimes fail to come up. I'm > not sure why retrying works - it's as if the remote end wants to use > NetBIOS but will occasionally allow a connection without it. It's > possible that this is no longer required - I haven't tried removing it. > > The 3 second timeout isn't really an issue because the remote end will > normally immediately respond - with either an ACK or NACK. Ah yes, thanks. Ok them suggesting NetBIOS, as long as you can decline! cheers, Ianhelp
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