From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 5 14:13:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF0A14F74 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:17:53 -0800 Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1233.bossig.com [208.26.241.233]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09972; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:12:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38235610.4255105@3-cities.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:11:28 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Alejandro Ramirez , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >> 2 questions: > >> 1. how can i see the transfer rate or connect speed if i miss the one > >> during login? 'show modem' shows the peak and average, but not the > >> connection speed. > > > >I think that you can see it with the show phy command. > > Like i said, i see peak and average, but no connection speed. I usually grep /var/log/ppp.log for CONNECT or ARQ. I have pmdemand for ppp setup to log the connect information. I normally grep ARQ because I don't always get a CONNECT on the line but I do see an something like 48000/ARQ/V90/... Kent > > >I think that you are enabling that your DNS requests are going to be > >resolved by your service provider, instead of another DNS server, (Maybe an > >Internal one with no recursion enabled). > > So that means i don't need to enable it? > > > > >You can use the "ppp -ddial" argument, some guys have soved his problems > >with this, and not just for remaking the call to your service provider when > >the link has been dropped, but they say that the had none reconnection in > >several days after they use this argument. > Is it possible pppd would work better? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message