From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 15:27:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digital.csudsu.com (digital.csudsu.com [209.249.57.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5A337B422 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 15:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@csudsu.com) Received: by digital.csudsu.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5E15D22E02; Thu, 3 May 2001 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by digital.csudsu.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3DD1F002; Thu, 3 May 2001 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Stefan Molnar To: Scott Reese Cc: , Subject: Re: Ricochet Modems In-Reply-To: <3AF1D98D.DAA70CE2@codysbooks.com> 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 It is not DHCP. It just plain old ppp. On the reconnect. I had to kill the ppp and powercycle the modem to let it reauth back. On Thu, 3 May 2001, Scott Reese wrote: > Stefan Molnar wrote: > > > It is doable. I did it for 1 1/2 because the 28.8k ricochet was cheaper > > than a phone line and a dedicated ppp connection to an isp. Just need to > > hanle having dhcp, and reconnecting about ever 7-10 days. > > That's pretty much why I want to do it too...unfortunately I'm not very > well-versed in configuring dhcp clients...are there any FAQ's anywhere that > would be of any use..? Also, what would I have to reconnect to every 7-10 > days? I'm not sure I catch your meaning on that one... > > Thanks again, and sorry for all the questions, but I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and > all its nuances and I'm trying to make sure that I can actually make this setup > work before I shell out the cash for the modem and the service. > > -Scott > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message