From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 7 15: 7: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-103.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.231]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CBB04204 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:06:58 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA05036; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:00:04 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.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 XAA03978; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:00:09 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200002072300.XAA03978@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: 320096206837-0001@t-online.de (Dermot McNally) Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer , brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPPoE connection almost working In-Reply-To: Message from 320096206837-0001@t-online.de (Dermot McNally) of "Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:43:21 +0100." <4.2.0.58.20000207232329.00b06178@tim> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:00:09 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I can now report success. I updated to current and it Just Worked. I must > admit to being very pleasantly surprised - I expected at least one nasty > hurdle, and was preparing to dissect the output of tcpdump when I realised > there was a lot more of it than there had been before. I looked at ppp and > noticed that the link was alive. You can't complain, can you? Excellent ! I *didn't* expect that :-) > Anyway, well done to Julian and Brian for the code that does all this. > You've done a phenomenal job. The link comes up in a fraction of a second > (which is important, since Deutsche Telekom doesn't offer an always-on > connection at decent rates) and I've done a test download at 87 K-bytes/s, > pretty much on the edge of the claimed bandwidth of my pipe. > > One further question - with reference to the ppp log below, is it normal > that I should have all those LCP entries? They keep repeating as long as > the link is up. I can just stop logging them, of course, but is there > something else I should tweak instead? Hmm, I think I'll move them to the lqm log level. They're strictly LCP, but they're also pretty annoying for someone that wants to see what link characteristics were negotiated.... TODO list ! > Thanks again, > Dermot It's worth it when you get emails from people saying they're happy :-) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message