Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:55:49 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Kees Jan Koster <dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: This hurts: NT dials in better than FreeBSD Message-ID: <199906191155.MAA38217@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:33:49 %2B0200." <376B801D.EC55EEC5@tccn.cs.kun.nl>
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> Dear FreeBSD Questions,
>
> This is beginning to hurt. I've set up a FreeBSD 3.1 system to dial into
> the Internet for me. Next to it is an NT box with the same purpose. They
> have identical modems (Courier I, ISDN modems).
>
> When I dial on the NT box it takes six seconds from [Ok] to *beep*--I'm
> in. Hanging up takes three seconds, from [yes] to *beep*--I'm gone.
> These times don't vary much even if I connect and disconnect a few times
> in a row.
>
> After a clean reboot the FreeBSD box (starting up ppp -auto uunet from
> the rc.local file) will also connect in the same six seconds.
> Disconnecting happens even faster than on the NT box. However, this is
> when it goes wrong. Reconnecting takes minutes, literally. Even in
> interactive mode I see the same problem: I dial in after a reboot: I'm
> in. "down; dial" causes an expect timeout on the string "CONNECT", and I
Don't use ``down'' unless you think the connection is hung. I would
suspect that when you redial, your ISP is trying to determine if
you're already connected. As you're using ``down'', the old
connection is still established on the ISP side and the delay is
probably some sort of response timeout on the original connection.
Try using ``close'' instead.
> cannot get a successful dial for minutes. Terminal mode just freezes
> when I enter it after going down.
>
> I have the feeling the modem needs to be reset after going down.
> However, I don't know what to do and where. Adding ATZ's and ATH's to
> the dial string seems to have no effect. Does anyone know what I am
> missing?
>
> Thanks for your input.
> Kees Jan
[.....]
If you do end up needing some sort of hangup sequence, use ``set
hangup''.
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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