FreeBSD 4.10, dial-up, cvsup, ports

[Igor Pokrovsky]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:56:27PM -0300, Feng wrote:
> Hi, People,
> 
> I had to switch from a ADSL to a dial-up connection and I had to change 
> the settings on my FreeBSD 4.10 box.
> 
> After reading The Handbook, I had sucessfully connected to the ISP, but 
> there are times that the  ppp does not work correctly:
> - cvsup'ping hangs during the middle of an update,
> - fetch'es during a "make install" ports also hangs
> 
> I have configured /etc/ppp/{ppp.config,ppp.linkup}, and set /etc/.conf:
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_profile="provider"
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?

Probably your link to ISP just drops.
Consider using pppd, it has an ability to reconnect to ISP.

-ip

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