Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:16:17 -0000 From: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Islandman" <schieb@centurytel.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do you reset a DSL net connection? Message-ID: <ICEEIHNIIMPDELNLPAGPKELBCBAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org> In-Reply-To: <20010316132725.C99648@mollari.cthul.hu>
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It seems to me that everyone else I know that has DSL uses PPPoE... but I don't.. so just incase you don't either.. I find that killing "inetd" and "dhclient" and then restarting "dhclient" and then restarting "inetd" to be effective for restablishing connectivity (is that a word or just something ISPs made up?). --- Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Kris Kennaway > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 21:27 > To: Islandman > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: How do you reset a DSL net connection? > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:22:48PM -0800, Islandman wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a DSL net connection which occasionally (more > frequent lately) > > drops off. How can I reset my connection without > rebooting FreeBSD? > > If you're using PPPoE to connect to your DSL provider, close and > reestablish the connection with ppp(8). > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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