From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 10 17:57:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA16732 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:57:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA16708 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:57:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA17050; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:01:32 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199712110101.BAA17050@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: daniel lawrence cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland ppp timeouts In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Dec 1997 13:03:01 GMT." <348D4185.DC04C67C@alphazed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:01:31 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm trying to configure iijppp for -auto mode. It seems that some > timeout is just a little too short. If I start ppp and then try to check > mail from netscape, netscape times out waiting for the modem to dial. If > I then try to check the mail again, it works fine since the connection > is established by this time. > > It's not just netscape that acts this way. FTP and telnet do the same. I > would like applications to wait just a little bit longer before giving > up. Is there a setting somewhere for this timeout? I suspect the problem you're *really* having is that the first connection will never work if you've got a dynamic IP address. The connection is initiated using one IP, and by the time the packet is actually sent, the interface has been assigned a different IP and your ISP never routes any of the traffic back. I'm working on fixing this at the moment. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....