Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:01:07 +0800 (SST) From: ash@fxsing.ml.com (Ash Yadav) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ash@tekkie.sg.ml.com (Ash Yadav) Subject: PPP slowing down telnet on HAN. Message-ID: <9802161101.AA22989@rachel.fxsing.ml.com>
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Folks, Just got my FreeBSD gateway to talk to my ISP and connect with my win 95 machine. There are a few strange things I have noticed and would like some help on ... 1) Whenever the modem is connected to my ISP a telnet to the freeBSD machine from my win95 machine takes a very very long time ( 5 mis plus ). The pings show a roundtrip time of 200 ms. Can someone pls shed some light on why PPP is causing this. 2) I also find that modem seems to wake up and dial out on its own. I think its sendmail but how can I be sure and how do I tell sendmail to check only once a day for email. 3) I would like the modem to fail after 3 retries to connect. By default it seems to try abt 10 times. Is there a setting I can tweak to change this redial. 4) How do I get my modem to terminate my connection on demand. It now waits for the default 300 second timeout before it drops the line . TIA .... I'd also like to add that the PPP stuff was fairly easy to setup. I was quite surprised that I got my modem setup and connecting to the ISP in abt a half hour. I am truly impresed by FreeBSD . Kudos to the freeBSD gang. Ash Yadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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