atom feed7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-mobileRe: Australian 3G ppp.conf
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s0x...@netspace.net.auJul 7, 2010 11:53 pm 
Maciej MilewskiJul 11, 2010 11:48 pm 
Peter JeremyJul 12, 2010 1:15 am 
Ian SmithJul 12, 2010 2:42 am 
Peter JeremyJul 12, 2010 3:01 am 
Ian SmithJul 12, 2010 3:43 am 
s0x...@netspace.net.auJul 14, 2010 3:03 am 
Subject:Re: Australian 3G ppp.conf
From:Peter Jeremy (pete@acm.org)
Date:Jul 12, 2010 3:01:28 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-mobile

On 2010-Jul-12 19:43:23 +1000, Ian Smith <smi@nimnet.asn.au> 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.

-- Peter Jeremy