From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 9 14:51:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08927 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zigg.com (tcgr-43.dialup.alliance.net [207.74.43.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08914 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by zigg.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA22975 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:52:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Will 'Mit' Rowe wrote: > On 9 Sep 1997, Don Croyle wrote: > > 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. :) If you're going to do that, you might as well use -ddial, which stays up all the time. -auto is for when you want the link to come up on demand, i.e. when you request a web page, or pick up your e-mail, etc. Matt Behrens | matt@zigg.com MST3K #85995 | http://www.zigg.com/