From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 17:15: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.gmx.net (mail1.gmx.net [194.221.183.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D4D015099 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:14:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clellek@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 28075 invoked by uid 0); 13 Nov 1999 01:14:53 -0000 Received: from pm-hl149.lynet.de (HELO gmx.net) (212.108.160.149) by mail1.gmx.net with SMTP; 13 Nov 1999 01:14:53 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:11:58 +0100 From: Carsten Lellek Reply-To: Carsten Lellek To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dynamic ip address X-Mailer: Carsten Lellek's registered AK-Mail 3.1 publicbeta1 [ger] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19991113011502.2D4D015099@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! In "The complete FreeBSD" Greg Lehey describes the user- and kernel-ppp's idle timeout feature as one of the major disadvantages in the use of dynamic ip addresses because after a timeout has happened no new connection with a new IP address can be established. (on the bottom of page 445) On my FreeBSD box I am able to comprehend this behavior but I don't understand it. Using ifconfig -a during a second connection shows the ppp0 interface with the correct ip address and also netstat -rn shows a routing table which seems to be OK. Has anyone an explanation why it doesn't work? Greg writes that only the phone link is disconnected and there are still TCP connections but theses sessions would get a timeout or new sessions could be started. Thanks for your help. Greetings Carsten Gruss Carsten -- E-Mail: clellek@gmx.net Web: http://www.lynet.de/~clellek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message