From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 22:37:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09579 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:37:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09526 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA11304; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:36:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ash Yadav cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ash Yadav Subject: Re: PPP slowing down telnet on HAN. In-Reply-To: <9802161101.AA22989@rachel.fxsing.ml.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Ash Yadav wrote: > Folks, > Just got my FreeBSD gateway to talk to my ISP and connect with my win 95 machine. There > are a few strange things I have noticed and would like some help on ... > > 1) Whenever the modem is connected to my ISP a telnet to the freeBSD > machine from my win95 machine takes a very very long time ( 5 mis plus > ). The pings show a roundtrip time of 200 ms. Can someone pls shed some > light on why PPP is causing this. Bad routing? The RTT is normal for dialup. > 2) I also find that modem seems to wake up and dial out on its own. I > think its sendmail but how can I be sure and how do I tell sendmail to > check only once a day for email. sendmail -bd -q1d > 3) I would like the modem to fail after 3 retries to connect. By default > it seems to try abt 10 times. Is there a setting I can tweak to change > this redial. On which end? in FreeBSD's ppp, it's `set redial'. > 4) How do I get my modem to terminate my connection on demand. It now > waits for the default 300 second timeout before it drops the line . `set timeout xxx' See http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/userppp.html. > I'd also like to add that the PPP stuff was fairly easy to setup. I was quite surprised > that I got my modem setup and connecting to the ISP in abt a half hour. I am truly > impresed by FreeBSD . Kudos to the freeBSD gang. Thanks! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message