From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 4:25:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h015.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F31837B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 04:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 2122 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 04:25:41 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.222) with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 04:25:41 -0800 X-Sent: 17 Mar 2001 12:25:41 GMT From: "Otter" To: "'Jason Halbert'" , "'Kris Kennaway'" , "'Islandman'" Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: RE: How do you reset a DSL net connection? Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:17:14 -0500 Message-ID: <006801c0aedc$3434af40$1401a8c0@zoso> 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 CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't even deal with inetd. Back when I was using Bellsouth.net, I had to reset the modem, then kill -HUP dhclient. Now with this is ISP, I just reset the modem and all is golden again. -Otter p.s. No, I don't use PPPoE > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Halbert > Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 2:16 AM > To: Kris Kennaway; Islandman > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: RE: How do you reset a DSL net connection? > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message