From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 23:16:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jason-n3xt.org (crtntx1-ar3-088-078.dsl.gtei.net [4.41.88.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3748437B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:16:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@jason-n3xt.org) Received: from jason (crtntx1-ar3-088-096.dsl.gtei.net [4.41.88.96]) by jason-n3xt.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2H7GV415643; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:16:31 GMT (envelope-from jason@jason-n3xt.org) From: "Jason Halbert" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Islandman" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: How do you reset a DSL net connection? Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:16:17 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <20010316132725.C99648@mollari.cthul.hu> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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