FreeBSD 4.10, dial-up, cvsup, ports

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:51:51PM +0400, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> 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.

If the link is dropped and then automaticaly dropped then the fetches
still stop halfway. You can set the fetch command to continue by
fetching this manualy with 'cd /usr/ports/distfiles/; fetch -r file', or
but i'm not sure about this, alias fetch fetch -r before you're make
command.

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Alex

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