On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:22:02PM +0200, Itamar Ravid wrote: > That is part of the reason I requested a direct connection. I've > experienced a couple of times when the PPTP tunnel dropped beneath > my feet. I don't believe it'll be so with a DHCP connection.
You're right - the tunnel adds yet another point of failure. Then again, I also had cases when the Ethernet connection dropped as well (as in, not allowing my IP to talk to the cables' network at all), requiring me to re-lease my DCHP'ed eth0 address. This was probably due to a DHCP server reset, and isn't all that frequent, but I added an "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0" to my reconnect script, just in case. -- Disconnections of the PPTP tunnel happen at least few times a week, though, and I really wonder whether it's some sneaky bug in the Linux pptp-client causing them. Anyone can say if L2TP connections are more stable on Linux? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
