From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 30 14:06:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22116 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:06:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.swimsuit.internet.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22109 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA21569; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:58:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.internet.dk) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:58:18 +0100 (CET) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: leifn@arnold.neland.dk To: Brian Somers cc: Leif Neland , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP (userland) troubles ? In-Reply-To: <199901290849.IAA00595@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Brian Somers wrote: > > Would it be possible to add an exponential delay when connecting fails for > > either reason? > > > > I just received my specified phone-bill. It filled 42 pages, with hundreds > > of calls with a duration of 17 seconds. (Because my modem needs to be > > software-reset; I have mentioned this before). > > > I've added a > > set redial seconds[+add[-max]] attempts > > to my TODO list. > Thanks. I have discovered the hangup chat-script; I now allways do a software reset ATS38=4SWR after hangup. If you have made this hook to reset bad modems, why didn't you tell me about it before? :-) Now at least I get connect in the second attempt. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message