On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Hugh Harris wrote:
> The pppd manual pages suggest that netBSD should be able to handle any serial
> speed, but I have found this to be incorrect, nothing in between 38400 and
> 57600 work.

It's probably your modem that can't handle baud rates between 38400 and
57600. At least I haven't seen any modem that will accept anything other
than the "standard" baud rates (e.g. 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200,
and some lower ones, maybe a higher one). I'm pretty sure NetBSD itself
can do odd baud rates though (perhaps useful for null modem connections
between two machines).

> > >Yes, and it will always be the case. The problem is that dial on demand
> > >keeps network connections open even when the modem gets disconnected. It
> > >works as when the modem re-dials, it gets the same IP address it had
> > >before. With dynamic addresses, that's not so. You'll get a different
> > >address when you redial. :-(
> >
> > Yes, but why can't it be used just like having FreePPP set to allow
> > applications to connect? That works fine under MacOS. I understand that
> > socket connections couldn't be maintained across sessions, but you should
> > be able to rig it to just re-ppp-up everytime we want to send something out
> > & then time-out the connection after "n" minutes of inactivity. As long as
> > you ppp-down upon that timeout, I dunno why there'd be a problem.
> 
> This is really what I was after - I'm not too worried about broken
> connections, I'm just too lazy to type the command!

That should work fine then... that's what I do, actually. I get a dynamic
IP address, but I use pppd's demand dial mode with a 90 second timeout.
Sometimes I leave a telnet connection idle for too long and lose it, but
stuff like web browsing, email, and ftp work great.
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