Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:17:14 -0500 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "'Jason Halbert'" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, "'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: <006801c0aedc$3434af40$1401a8c0@zoso> In-Reply-To: <ICEEIHNIIMPDELNLPAGPKELBCBAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org>
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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
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