From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 21:01:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26910 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26828 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-164.laker.net [208.0.233.64]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id AAA11627; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:00:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199810070400.AAA11627@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Doug White" , "Jeff Kletsky" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00:15 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ppp -auto -alias and 1st connection w/ dynamic IP Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:33:22 -0700 (PDT), Doug White wrote: >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > >> With an ISP that provides dynamically-assigned IP numbers, I am observing that >> >> ppp -auto -alias sf >> >> will dial properly when a command such as >> >> telnet some.outside.host >> >> is issued, but the connection is not established. Once the link is up, >> everything seems to function "correctly." (telnet "immediately" connects) > >This is generally because telnet times out before ppp connects. It's a >fact of -auto life. :) Can't the timeout be increased ?? > >> My guess is that the packets which caused the dial to occur are >> (incorrectly) aliased to the "last" IP number assigned to the interface. >> When the link comes up, the interface's new address is different -- the >> return packets are not recognized as destined for the PPP-client machine >> (not to mention that the ISP's routers are sending the packet to another >> machine!). > >Another fact of -auto life. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message