From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 05:03:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA29593 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 05:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from monsoon.dial.pipex.net (monsoon.dial.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA29588 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 05:03:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@alphazed.com) Received: (qmail 29352 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1997 13:03:01 -0000 Received: from ad095.du.pipex.com (HELO milliard.alphazed.com) (193.130.243.95) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 1997 13:03:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 13488 invoked by uid 0); 9 Dec 1997 13:03:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alphazed.com) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 9 Dec 1997 13:03:02 -0000 Message-ID: <348D4185.DC04C67C@alphazed.com> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 13:03:01 +0000 From: daniel lawrence Organization: AlphaZed Digital Documents X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: userland ppp timeouts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to configure iijppp for -auto mode. It seems that some timeout is just a little too short. If I start ppp and then try to check mail from netscape, netscape times out waiting for the modem to dial. If I then try to check the mail again, it works fine since the connection is established by this time. It's not just netscape that acts this way. FTP and telnet do the same. I would like applications to wait just a little bit longer before giving up. Is there a setting somewhere for this timeout?