From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 18:13: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-27.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0FA414D9A for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:12:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA06751; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 01:47:32 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA55089; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 01:50:58 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911070150.BAA55089@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp questions In-Reply-To: Message from Jonathon McKitrick of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 00:05:18 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 01:50:57 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 2 questions: > 1. 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. If you don't clock it at connection time, the info is lost. Ppp doesn't know anything specifically about modems and doesn't understand anything in the dial chat. Besides, it's up to the person to turn on the speed reporting, make sure it's reporting the line speed and not the DTR speed, and to make sure they look for a linefeed after the CONNECT so that the speed string isn't lost. All that aside, modems retrain their speed based on the quality of the line. The initial value is going to be wrong after a while and there's no way that I know of to get the modem to say the current line speed. > 2. also, what difference does it make if i include 'delete all' in > ppp.linkup before 'add default HISADDR'? And what difference does it make > to add 'enable dns'? It seems my connection works either way, > notwithstanding the dropped connections, which i still haven't figured > out... :( Hey, that's 3 questions with a hint at a forth. The ``delete all'' deletes all non-interface routes for the current tun interface. It's not usually necessary. The ``enable dns'' confirms with the peer that the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf are ok. The won't usually change, but it's worth having this stuff enabled in case they do. > -jonathon -- Brian 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