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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: "How to stay OnLine after a reboot with PPP.device ?"
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 11:40:30 GMT
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Message-ID: <1615.6653T990T2029@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article ""How to stay OnLine after a reboot with PPP.device ?"" Ivan
- Borzieri said:
-
- >I read in PPP documentation that it would be possible to make the modem not
- >to hangup connection when the A1200 reboots. As I'm using IBrowse, and
- >sometimes this one crashes, I'd like to setup the modem and PPP so that if
- >the machine crashes I can restart TCP/IP connection without redialing my ISP
- >(and saving precious phone bill money :)).
-
- How fast is your bootup? We're talking pennies here... Compare the time it
- takes to reach a full connection with the time it takes to reboot the 'mig.
-
-
- >The question is: how can I instruct PPP to act that way ? Some people on IRC
- >told me PPP already works that way. After a crash, which script should I run
- >to make the connection available again without redialing ? Would it be
- >sufficient to run AmiTCP again ?
-
- >If anybody has better Sportser settings to suggest, you are welcome !
-
- > Thanks in advance,
- > Ivan Borzieri
-
- Look for the DTR on/off setting in the modem's manual. This tells the modem
- when the computer is using it, and hangs up when it gets a signal that it
- isn't. You've got to override this by this specific setting.
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- <tsb> F I S H E R M A N
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- Texas Instruments TI-85 & TI-92 graphing calculators
- nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se
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- "Well, 'scuse me. I was jus' tryin' to save the world."
- -- Gaspode the wonder dog
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