From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 7 8:20:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D99158F1 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20480; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:20:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:20:21 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Mark Newton Cc: Christoph Kukulies , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sppp behaviour In-Reply-To: <20000108023528.B41147@internode.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Mark Newton wrote: > > I have the problem that with FreeBSDs isdn (i4b) my rlogin (ssh) > > sessions die (are rendered unusable - lock o' city) regularly when > > the idle timer drops the connection. A subsequent awaking of the connection > > results in a different IP address being assigned from the ISP. > > This is perfectly normal, and is why "dial on demand IP with an idle > timeout" sucks ass. It works if you have a static IP. ISDN helps, since connection setup time is short. It's wonderful if both sides of the link will bring it up for traffic. I have used this stuff to provide connections that appear nailed, and still get over 1 link per term server port. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message