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- From: jwcj@rlb6000.scs.uiuc.edu (John Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: reconnect after reboot--amitcp4.3--it's possible again!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 04:05:38 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Message-ID: <4kkkqi$2rn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rlb6000.scs.uiuc.edu
-
- For those of you who wanted to reconnect after reboot with AmiTCP4.3,
- it's actually fairly easy if you have slip and the provider supports
- BOOTP. All you have to do is to have another db/provider.conf that has
- all the dialing and logging in instructions deleted. AmiTCP will
- renegotiate the connection automatically with this so long as you are
- still connected to the server. Do the following:
-
- 1) make your modem to ignore DTR by issuing AT&D0
- 2) copy db/provider.conf to db/provider.conf2
- 3) delete the dialing instructions after Show/HideConsole in the
- provider.conf2 file
- 4) create a script called reconnect in AmitCP:bin with the following
- lines
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf AmiTCP:db/provider.conf3
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf2 AmiTCP:db/provider.conf
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf3 AmiTCP:db/provider.conf2
- startnet
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf AmiTCP:db/provider.conf3
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf2 AmiTCP:db/provider.conf
- rename AmiTCP:db/provider.conf3 AmiTCP:db/provider.conf2
- 5) execute the script whenever you want to reconnect.
-
- That's it.
-
- The first set of renames will switch you to the continue Provider.conf
- and the second set of renames switches you back to the dialing
- Provider.conf. This way, you'll never have to worry about whether you
- have the right provider.conf---so "startnet" will get you the normal
- connection while "reconnect" will get you the continued connection.
-
- Thanks to Jarno of NSDi who emailed me back quite promptly about this.
- You can also play with startnet to make it accept different arguments,
- but I prefer this way since it's easier for me.
-
- BTW, has anyone noticed that the slip connection is faster in 4.3? I
- used to get about 1.6K/s at best, now I'm getting nearly 1.9K/s (on a
- 14.4bps modem)!
-
- --
- John Chen
- jwcj@rlb6000.scs.uiuc.edu
- Be happier!
-