From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 23:33:08 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA24361 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:33:08 -0700 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24355 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:33:08 -0700 Received: from hpautobo.aus.hp.com by hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA271299181; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:33:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199506230633.AA271299181@hp.com> Received: by hpautobo.aus.hp.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA173979180; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 16:33:00 +1000 From: M C Wong Subject: difference between terminal access dial-up and SLIP/PPP dial-up To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 16:33:00 EST Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, This may sound like a stupid question, but from what I have experienced so far, the best SLIP/PPP connection up time I can get is 2 days, but with normal termincal access dial-up, the line just seems to be never dropping at all. This makes me wonder is there any difference between normal terminal dial-up program (kermit, minicom etc) monitor line/connection and SLIP/PPP process? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)