From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 03:22:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28243 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 03:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hudutilgw.ml.com (hudutilf01.ml.com [198.242.49.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28224 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 03:22:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ash@fxsing.ml.com) Received: from ml2.ml.com ([199.201.37.130]) by hudutilgw.ml.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/MLgwo-3.05) with ESMTP id GAA26997 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 06:02:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from tekkie.sg.ml.com (fxsg3.sg.ml.com [131.208.182.28]) by ml2.ml.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/MLml4-2.08) with ESMTP id GAA29812 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 06:01:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from rachel.fxsing.ml.com (rachel.sg.ml.com [131.208.182.50]) by tekkie.sg.ml.com (8.8.7/8.8.7/MLdomain4-2.07) with SMTP id TAA27620 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:01:09 +0800 (SST) Received: by rachel.fxsing.ml.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22989; Mon, 16 Feb 98 19:01:08 SST From: ash@fxsing.ml.com (Ash Yadav) Message-Id: <9802161101.AA22989@rachel.fxsing.ml.com> Subject: PPP slowing down telnet on HAN. To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:01:07 +0800 (SST) Cc: ash@tekkie.sg.ml.com (Ash Yadav) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, Just got my FreeBSD gateway to talk to my ISP and connect with my win 95 machine. There are a few strange things I have noticed and would like some help on ... 1) Whenever the modem is connected to my ISP a telnet to the freeBSD machine from my win95 machine takes a very very long time ( 5 mis plus ). The pings show a roundtrip time of 200 ms. Can someone pls shed some light on why PPP is causing this. 2) I also find that modem seems to wake up and dial out on its own. I think its sendmail but how can I be sure and how do I tell sendmail to check only once a day for email. 3) I would like the modem to fail after 3 retries to connect. By default it seems to try abt 10 times. Is there a setting I can tweak to change this redial. 4) How do I get my modem to terminate my connection on demand. It now waits for the default 300 second timeout before it drops the line . TIA .... I'd also like to add that the PPP stuff was fairly easy to setup. I was quite surprised that I got my modem setup and connecting to the ISP in abt a half hour. I am truly impresed by FreeBSD . Kudos to the freeBSD gang. Ash Yadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message