Re: Australian 3G ppp.conf
Ian Smith <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Jul-12 19:43:23 +1000, Ian Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > # Ludicrous number of retries to try and convince it to work without MS NBNS > > > set ipcpretry 3 50 > > > >What happens without and with this? As I read ppp(8), it could take up > >to 50 IPCP configreqs at 3 seconds to negotiate IP and/or DNS addresses? > > My experience was that the link would sometimes fail to come up. I'm > not sure why retrying works - it's as if the remote end wants to use > NetBIOS but will occasionally allow a connection without it. It's > possible that this is no longer required - I haven't tried removing it. > > The 3 second timeout isn't really an issue because the remote end will > normally immediately respond - with either an ACK or NACK. Ah yes, thanks. Ok them suggesting NetBIOS, as long as you can decline! cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"