Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:37:20 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User PPP is slow to start Message-ID: <199903191837.SAA02669@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:55:25 MST." <36F2817D.AF171F3F@lundahl.com>
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> Last night ppp died on sig 11. The machine is a gateway for our LAN so > I attempted to restart ppp assuming I would diagnose the problem later. > PPP was apparently locking, after several attempts to get it working I > set > another FreeBSD box up as a temporary gateway so that I could figure > out what was going on. > > This morning I realized that ppp is just taking it's time starting: > > lundahl# ppp > Working in interactive mode <--- // At this point nothing happens > for 45 seconds > Using interface: tun0 // and then everything > continues as if > ppp on lundahl> // nothing had happened. > > Are their any suggestions as too why user ppp would pause like this. > > Thanks for your help. http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html would seem to indicate that you can't ping `hostname` without the same delay. > James A. Taylor > Lundahl Instrumens, Inc. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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