Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 14:19:57 -0400 From: wolperte@knox.pcec.philips.com (ED WOLPERT ) To: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP and demand start Message-ID: <9507051819.AA13800@eis16.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <18527.9507051611@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> (message from Nik Clayton on Wed, 5 Jul 1995 17:11:23 %2B0100 (BST))
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>>>>> "Nik" == Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> writes:
-Nik> and PPP will then dial out as and when necessary. If I do this
-Nik> however, PPP starts up, announces that it is in auto mode and
-Nik> becomes a daemon (preety much what I expected). But if I then
-Nik> try and ping, telnet or netscape out I get told that the network
-Nik> is unreachable. PPP does not attempt to dial out.
I had the same problem... it would only attempt to dial out when I
pinged the gateway (ppp provider). However, after the initial
session, and after the ppp daemon closed the connection due to
timeout, pinging a host in my /etc/hosts file (and others) would
re-open the connection.
A different problem I have: The timeout would occur even with an
active connection. It seems that if I don't keep pinging something
while I'm connected (Either through an 'slurp' or long ftp session) it
will timeout. Most strange. Ideas anyone?
--
Virtually,
Edward Wolpert
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