From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 9 10:48:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23137 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:48:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw3-59.fwi.com [207.113.68.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA23115 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA00393; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:47:38 -0500 (EST) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? References: <341565dd.68501361@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> <19970909123253.13741@vinyl.quickweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 09 Sep 1997 12:46:15 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: Mark Mayo's message of "Tue, 9 Sep 1997 12:32:53 -0400" Message-ID: <86d8mie5y0.fsf@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/XEmacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo writes: > User PPP works right... just "differently" than before. A specific > reference to the different behaviour should be noted on the CD of course, > but I think userland PPP is quite stable and working better than ever. Yes it works, but there are a few features it would be nice to have before it's unleashed on the world. Like a way to explicitly bring up the link when running in auto mode. It often takes me two or three tries to connect to my ISP, by which time a program that's attempting to open a socket has usually timed out. In the past, I've handled this by using invoking ppp interactively when I'm present and using ppp -background for cron jobs. Now I'm forced to use ppp -auto and my cron jobs keep timing out. :-( -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment.