Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:51:51 +0400 From: Igor Pokrovsky <ip@doom.homeunix.org> To: Feng <redbrick1@terra.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10, dial-up, cvsup, ports Message-ID: <20041003185151.GA13039@doom.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <41604B5B.6010009@terra.com.br> References: <41604B5B.6010009@terra.com.br>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:56:27PM -0300, Feng wrote:
> Hi, People,
>
> I had to switch from a ADSL to a dial-up connection and I had to change
> the settings on my FreeBSD 4.10 box.
>
> After reading The Handbook, I had sucessfully connected to the ISP, but
> there are times that the ppp does not work correctly:
> - cvsup'ping hangs during the middle of an update,
> - fetch'es during a "make install" ports also hangs
>
> I have configured /etc/ppp/{ppp.config,ppp.linkup}, and set /etc/.conf:
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_profile="provider"
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?
Probably your link to ISP just drops.
Consider using pppd, it has an ability to reconnect to ISP.
-ip
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