FreeBSD 4.10, dial-up, cvsup, ports

[Tema Zelikin]

Hello, Igor.

Sunday, October 3, 2004, 10:51:51 PM, you wrote:

>> 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?
IP> Probably your link to ISP just drops.
IP> Consider using pppd, it has an ability to reconnect to ISP.
you need to add this string in your rc.conf:
ppp_flags="-ddial"
ppp will reconnect to provider when link drops.

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