From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 20 5:30:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E561837B407; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f7KCUBd44155; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmz) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108201230.f7KCUBd44155@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: taking ppp down and up In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010820124519.0404bf48@mail.Go2France.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010820124519.0404bf48@mail.Go2France.com> X-Mailer: Emacs 21.0.104.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> Len Conrad writes: > We=B4re very happy with PPPoE into our cable modem > =B4cept the whole link isn=B4t reliable :)))) > ... for at least the reason that France Telecom (French-govt-protected= > monopoly), God bless 'em, cripples their ADSL service by inserting 3 m= inute > blackouts, at the next hop at end their end of the ADSL, link througho= ut > the day, (ping to next hop dead) to protect their exorbitantly priced > leased-line service. There is no 3 minute blackout. The session is just closed. Change lqrperiod if you want a shorter deconnexion. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message