Date: 06 Nov 1999 16:05:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp questions Message-ID: <86904bu35d.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Jonathon McKitrick's message of "Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:26:44 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911051925210.90325-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes: > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: > >>> 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. Try grepping for CONNECT in your /var/log/ppp.log* files, add or subtract a few head(1) and/or tail(1) invocations. >> 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. I am customarily using "ppp -ddial" and because of the awful phone lines in my area, I have seen some redials. But it works fine both ways, with the -ddial option, or manually. You s > Is it possible pppd would work better? Better in which ways? In matters of reconnections? Nahhh, pppd died because of my awful line quality just as often as user ppp dies now. -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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