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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Is PPP recoverable after reset???
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 17:11:49 GMT
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- On 29 Mar 96 13:10:37 +0500, John S. Burger articulated:
- <> I use AmiTCP 4.2 and PPP 1.45 registered also and this works fine. However,
- <> with AmoTCP 4.0demo things are a bit different. The default AmiTCP 4.2
- <> starenet script uses BOOTP to configure the ppp.device. This works fine
- <> using AT&D0 and CD in the ppp0.config file and then running startnet again
- <> the connection is renegotiated. . The startnet script actually creates the
- <> ENV:sana2/ppp0.config file from the defaults you set during the software
- <> installation when the script is run. With AmiTCP 4.0demo the ppp0.config file
- <> resides in env- archive: and is copied to ENV: on bootup. The startnet script
- <> does not use BOOTP (it is not even in the 4.0 archive) it simply uses the
- <> online command to put the ppp.device on line. If you have dynamic connection
- <> it seems the online command (ppp.device) can't reconnect because it doesn't
- <> know the IP addresses. When the startnet script is first run and the
- <> connection negotiated there are two environment variables created--
- <> ppp0IPLocal and ppp0IPRemote -- that contain the current IP addresses. I added
- <> two lines to the end of my V4.0demo startnet script to copy these two
- <> environment variables to env-archive: when the connection is first made. Then
- <> after a reboot they are in ENV: and a simple online command will reconnect
- <> you.
-
- I was not aware of this. I have always used AmiTCP 4.2, so
- this problem never happened to me. I'm glad you have found a
- fix for this and I hope others read this too.
-
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