From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 19 5:36:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590C21508E for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 05:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA86913; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:56:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA38217; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:55:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906191155.MAA38217@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Kees Jan Koster Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: This hurts: NT dials in better than FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:33:49 +0200." <376B801D.EC55EEC5@tccn.cs.kun.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:55:49 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Dear FreeBSD Questions, > > This is beginning to hurt. I've set up a FreeBSD 3.1 system to dial into > the Internet for me. Next to it is an NT box with the same purpose. They > have identical modems (Courier I, ISDN modems). > > When I dial on the NT box it takes six seconds from [Ok] to *beep*--I'm > in. Hanging up takes three seconds, from [yes] to *beep*--I'm gone. > These times don't vary much even if I connect and disconnect a few times > in a row. > > After a clean reboot the FreeBSD box (starting up ppp -auto uunet from > the rc.local file) will also connect in the same six seconds. > Disconnecting happens even faster than on the NT box. However, this is > when it goes wrong. Reconnecting takes minutes, literally. Even in > interactive mode I see the same problem: I dial in after a reboot: I'm > in. "down; dial" causes an expect timeout on the string "CONNECT", and I Don't use ``down'' unless you think the connection is hung. I would suspect that when you redial, your ISP is trying to determine if you're already connected. As you're using ``down'', the old connection is still established on the ISP side and the delay is probably some sort of response timeout on the original connection. Try using ``close'' instead. > cannot get a successful dial for minutes. Terminal mode just freezes > when I enter it after going down. > > I have the feeling the modem needs to be reset after going down. > However, I don't know what to do and where. Adding ATZ's and ATH's to > the dial string seems to have no effect. Does anyone know what I am > missing? > > Thanks for your input. > Kees Jan [.....] If you do end up needing some sort of hangup sequence, use ``set hangup''. -- 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