Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:36:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Juha Korkiakangas <sfp2011@post.netlink.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MasqDialer for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <394557C8.14B741A6@3-cities.com> References: <3944DD88.C92DB3F@post.netlink.se> <448zwadden.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> <394531B6.EEFF1E23@post.netlink.se>
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Juha Korkiakangas wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > > Juha Matias Korkiakangas <sfp2011@post.netlink.se> writes: > > > > > I'm setting up FreeBSD-router for my windows-clients. Anyway, > > > windows-clients are timing out waiting ppp-link > > > to come up. I know Linux have somekind server-client > > > system to bring up link from clients. How can this done with > > > Freebsd(3.3-release) or can it be done? Any ides? > > > > It *sounds* like you're just talking about doing dial-on-demand. The > > '-auto' option to ppp(8) does this. If that's not what you're after, > > you'll need to be more specific about what you're after. > > > > - Lowell Gilbert > > I'm using 'ppp -auto -alias myISP' right now, that's nice when i'm using > FreeBSD. Anyway, i have Windows98 and Windows2000-clients on my network. > When i start browser on Windows98/2000, my Freebsd-router starts > Calling/connecting to my ISP, as usually. Bad thing is, > connecting take's too long time and Netscape/IE in WIN98/2000 gives me > "Server could no reach" or "Netscape is unable to locate server > www.freebsd.org". > What i need is something i can connect from Windows98/2000-clients to > myISP and start browser after that. For Linux there is > mserver(http://cpwright.villagenet.com/mserver), maybe there is > something like that for FreeBSD too. I have close to the same environment. It turns out that FreeBSD's user-ppp connects much faster than 2000 RRAS/nat does. A second or 2 is much faster when you are talking about a browser timing out. If you don't like it timing out and clicking ok, I use an alias that ping's my ISP. You only need about 10 seconds and can start your browser after the first time out. I add "-w 10000" to the ping to allow 10 second timeouts. Something is wrong if I see more than 2 or 3 timeouts. I also had to add "-n 10" to the pings to allow setiathome to work almost everytime. You could also automate this and create an Icon that pings your ISP before it fires up the browser. Kent > > Thank's > Juha > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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