From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 9 14:33:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07720 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.nmarcom.com (root@host-034.nmarcom.com [207.181.124.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07715 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.nmarcom.com (thelab@unix.nmarcom.com [207.181.124.34]) by unix.nmarcom.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA11208; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:30:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Will 'Mit' Rowe" To: Don Croyle cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? In-Reply-To: <86afhmdylg.fsf@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 9 Sep 1997, Don Croyle wrote: > Nate Williams writes: > > > > 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. > > > > % ping remotehost > > > > works really well. > > Unless it takes so long to connect that the queue for outgoing packets > fills up. Not something that happens in just two or three tries, but > it it goes much beyond that.... my tactic is... ping -c 5 remotehost in a crontab entry. :) --- Will 'Mit' Rowe Systems Administrator/Programmer Neray MarCom, Inc. 25 Imperial Street, Suite 210, Toronto, Ontario, Canada vox: (416)481-5405 fax: (416)481-3741 http://www.nmarcom.com