-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:16:21AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > another point is that most external modems have a power/reset switch that > comes in handy when dealing with flakey ISP's. get a modem hang with an > internal and you have to reboot, with an external you push the button and > redial.
Was also handy when I was living at home. My folks were too impatient for dial-on-demand and would bitch about timeouts no matter how many times I explained that it was normal while the modem was dailing. So I turned off demand and turned on persist and ppp_on_boot. Need a connection? Turn the modem on, it'll connect shortly. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/NGVhsClmdIs2Ki8RAox+AJ9issUhUFq8RSy38Vjgd5d3HG/tDgCfaK8j pj09CnffmQmXek/Z5aF5elg= =mbY8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
