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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Date: 06 Nov 1999 16:05:02 +0200
In-Reply-To: Jonathon McKitrick's message of "Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 +0000 (GMT)"
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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
>
>>> how can i see the transfer rate or connect speed if i miss the one
>>> during login?  'show modem' shows the peak and average, but not the
>>> connection speed.
>>
>> I think that you can see it with the show phy command.
> 
> Like i said, i see peak and average, but no connection speed.

Try grepping for CONNECT in your /var/log/ppp.log* files, add or
subtract a few head(1) and/or tail(1) invocations.

>> You can use the "ppp -ddial" argument, some guys have soved his
>> problems with this, and not just for remaking the call to your
>> service provider when the link has been dropped, but they say that
>> the had none reconnection in several days after they use this
>> argument.

I am customarily using "ppp -ddial" and because of the awful phone lines 
in my area, I have seen some redials.  But it works fine both ways, with 
the -ddial option, or manually.  You s

> Is it possible pppd would work better?

Better in which ways?  In matters of reconnections?  Nahhh, pppd died
because of my awful line quality just as often as user ppp dies now.

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Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]


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