FreeBSD 4.10, dial-up, cvsup, ports

[Reed Loefgren]

Feng,

I don't know if this will help, and I don't know if it's been suggested,
but you've been struggling with this for so long I might as well throw it
out.

I have a vanilla 4.10 machine that was absolutely incapable of using a
Courier v. everything modem, a modem that had been usable on every
linux/windows/bsd box I ever put it on. But on *this* machine it, too,
would only rarely even negotiate a connection, and when it did it would
drop it after a couple minutes.

I did two things (not very scientific, but it's My Way): I got a different
modem (Hayes Accura 33/56k) and I asked my ISP for some different dialin
numbers.

I only rarely get dropped now; usually if I'm streaming radio or listening
to real audio streams, and the negotiation, while not as fast as my old
Slackware box, goes through quickly. Some of their numbers just don't like
BSD handshakes, some do.

Hope this helps. Even better, I hope this has already been solved for you.

r

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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Feng Sian wrote:

> Igor,
>
> Em Dom, 2004-10-03 às 15:51, Igor Pokrovsky escreveu:
> > Probably your link to ISP just drops.
> > Consider using pppd, it has an ability to reconnect to ISP.
>
> I also have thought that it should be that. But things get complicated
> when:
> - in the middle of a download (either through wget or fetch), if I run
> man <something>, I listen a click, sgnaling that the connection has been
> dropped. If I watch the log, there is nothing that helps to zero on the
> cause.
> - if I try to ssh out to another machine in my local network, the same
> click is listened.
>
> --
> Feng Sian <redbrick1 at terra dot com dot br>
> Linux user #160781
>
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