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Date:      Sat, 23 May 1998 13:31:22 -0400
From:      GothGeek Sysadmin <tom@inna.net>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: **HEADS UP** user-ppp has changed !
Message-ID:  <19980523133121.44909@tyger.inna.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805231234.NAA07729@awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:34:57PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980522102523.24421B-100000@current1.whistle.com> <199805231234.NAA07729@awfulhak.org>

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On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 01:34:57PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > did you test it against mpd?
> 
> Anyway, the upshot of it all is that YES, PPP TALKS TO MPD OK (first 
> time too), but I have the following observations to make about mpd 
> (Archie cc'd):

I've been using MPD for 9 months now on a 24x7 4modem link to my house and
I have one observation to make that may or may not be helpfull.

MPD is horrible about handling losing a link which means I turn off 3 modems
whenever it rains because it can redial and reconnect faster then it can
handle losing a link.  Lose one of 4 modems and it takes usually 2
minutes to start sending packets again.  Whats worse is the phonelines are
bad enough to where under a good heavy file transfer I'll lose a modem on one
particular line every few minutes.

I'm using 2 freebsd 2.2.2 boxes running mpd 1b4. its a backwards setup which is
why I dont just dial into my termservers.  Its local call from work to home 
but at the time I installed it all it was not a local call back and dialout
lines are still cheaper at the office then home.

I never had a chance to do anything constructive about solving it so I never
mentioned it before... was just happy that it worked at all :-)

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