Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:50:21 -0500 (EST) From: Spike <spork@ix.netcom.com> To: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A little confused by pppctl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901270947530.300-100000@PigStuy.nws.net> In-Reply-To: <36AEAA02.F360932D@chalmers.com.au>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Looking at pppctl's man page, am I right in assuming that it wont work at all > unless I have the "set server /var/run/internet "" 0177" line in the ppp.conf > script. > Am I also corect in assunming that this will not interfere with the running of > ppp in -auto or -ddial mode. In other words adding that line will not cause the > ppp connection to behave differently - it will just allow me to access the > deamon for stats and checking should I want to. Yes, you are correct in assuming that. You will just be able to talk to your ppp daemon with something more subtle than kill(1). > > I've finally got this link pretty rock steady, and don't want to trash it. I > would like to know however what the line is set up as. speed, protocol, > compression etc. Will pppctl give this to me? > Or would I be better using a log trace... You can read your logs, depending on how verbose they are, but "show compress", "show protocol", and "show ipcp" should do the trick. > > thanks for any info, > Cheers > Bob > > -- > http://www.chalmers.com.au. Publications From China in 24 different languages. > English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Burmese, Bengali, > Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Persian, Swahili, > Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese. China Books for CIBTC, Beijing. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNq8nsZ31G6IEwnwxAQGavQQAjx5ElA37xPUxczEDmS0u7veKwjl0j53f 1m67rN8NOXrEHd2paJLdppHdVcfQGAfWfgP75zk8HJCGVwGPNy7piZPCAAcZAjR0 bYyqrkKpqoaHiQP2Iq1YatRn4Q71DZ03VjFPT+ywMK9OFoyG8td5DK1KAWiFsiP5 zt+OXdzwlYs= =Vr2V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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