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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip Subject: Re: SMTP to WFW 3.11... Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 12:56:24 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 33 Message-ID: <32C275F8.78A6@www.play-hookey.com> References: <5922p9$6av@raven.eva.net> <599lre$ats@raven.eva.net> <32BCE9FF.7691@www.play-hookey.com> <59s547$a94@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.misc:32669 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33285 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc:15477 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:29817 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <32BCE9FF.7691@www.play-hookey.com>, > Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: > > My home connection is also a 33.6K dialup for now (when I win the > > Lottery.... :-) ). My gateway machine is also my Web server and mail > > server. Since it is a Web server, I'm using pppd with a 24/7 connection > > to my ISP. I find that the main hassle with not buying a dedicated port > > is that the ISP will dump you for inactivity, so as to free the port for > > another user. > > Ah, you want the -ddial switch on the new ppp :) It does an immediate > redial after a disconnect ! Actually, there are other reasons for using a dedicated port. Such as, I'm not contending with 7 or 15 other serial ports for bandwidth on a single computer before ever getting onto the ISP's network, let alone the Internet. I also don't know how happy my ISP would be to give me a dedicated IP block, but a temporary connection port (which is set up to assign the user IP address). My address could change with each re-dial -- not good for a Web server! With my present pppd setup, I do have an ip-down script which works most of the time to re-connect. However, in case the ISP's modem is slow to reset (it has happened), I also do a ping-based check for the IP connection as a cron job every five minutes. This manages to keep me up and running. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |