Re: PPP - On Demand Dialing / timeouts
Hello Nico,
I also use the demend dialing. Since we are both stuck with dialup, we have
to play the waiting game. I did find some tips/tricks to help and that was to
ask the modem to speed-dial instead of slow-dial my ISP. I didn't use bind to
begin with, then later installed it and decided it didn't help with my
wants/needs and removed it, and that broke part of my system, so keep it
installed! :)
Next, You can change the settings on clients 'network time out'. I also ask
users on my lan to start ICQ first, *then* check mail, or smirf the net,
whatever. Fortunately, I'm down to a single win98 box, and all others are
debian (wahoo). .
I found that I can kill the modem noise with 'm0', and another kind soul on
this list sent me the speed dial command 's11=50'. So if you pull up your
chatscript with an editor, you can add those commands to the ATDT string.
Mine looks like this:
# ispnumber
OK-AT-OK ATM0s11=50DT4400071 in my default 'provider' script in
/etc/chatscripts/.
I used pppconfig to generate the original script, then simply added the other
commands after the 'AT' command and before the 'DT' command. I'm still
running potato stable here.
hth
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 04:53, nico de haer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At this moment i'm using a modem in my Debian (potato R2, kernel
> 2.2.18pre21) box to connect to my ISP (If you can read this line, you know
> that that part works... ;P) Using IPCHAINS i've set up masquaraing (works
> fine also). I began experimenting with PPPd's (version 2.3.11) DEMAND
> option. Initial results are encouraging. There is one problem i'm
> encountering, see the steps below....
>
> 1. A client wants/needs to go on-line (say, someone types www.debian.org in
> a browser)
> 2. This results in the client asking my BIND running on my Debian server to
> resolve www.debian.org
> 3. The DNS is stupid, so it needs to ask the DNS server of my provider,
> thus generating IP traffic on my PPP link
> 4. PPP starts dialing, negotiating, DHCP (yup, dynamic ip guys)
> 5. The client (1) complains that all this is taking *way* too much time (in
> the mean time, pppd is still doing 4)
> 6. The user (me or my brother) gets pissed off, bashes on his keyboard (or
> mouse) to convice the computer to try again....
> 7. Finaly we see the Debian site.
>
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