Re: First packets lost [Was: windows bringing up the link]

[Erik Corry]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:48:02PM +1300, Steve Christall wrote:
> Hi Erik.
> 
> I set the local IP in the diald.conf file.  How would I permanently set 

Sounds right.

> it?  Wouldn't this local IP be assign the tap0 when the link is down?

I would hope so.  Check with ifconfig that that is happening.

> Symptoms are approx every one in three - five dialouts when the link comes 
> up ie ppp is established, everything goes dead for 20 30 secs with various 
> dns requests going out, but nothing comes back in.  Then off it goes.  Four 
> times out of five it works fine ... ppp comes up, DNS goes out .... data 
> comes back!

> Any thoughs!?

Sounds like it might be a routing problem at your ISP, actually.
Perhaps just on some of the dialin lines.  According to which
line you coincidentally get when you dial in it works or not.

Normally, people with static IP don't have problems.

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