Australian 3G ppp.conf

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-Jul-12 19:43:23 +1000, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >  # Ludicrous number of retries to try and convince it to work without MS NBNS
> >  set ipcpretry 3 50
>
>What happens without and with this?  As I read ppp(8), it could take up 
>to 50 IPCP configreqs at 3 seconds to negotiate IP and/or DNS addresses?

My experience was that the link would sometimes fail to come up.  I'm
not sure why retrying works - it's as if the remote end wants to use
NetBIOS but will occasionally allow a connection without it.  It's
possible that this is no longer required - I haven't tried removing it.

The 3 second timeout isn't really an issue because the remote end will
normally immediately respond - with either an ACK or NACK.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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