Jerry Winegarden wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>
> > Tghis won't directly help you, but keep in mind that you shouldn't use
> > pump. You should use dhcpcd instead. If you have your machine up 24/7 like
> > I do then pump will simply abort after it fails to renew it's lease. I'm
> > on RCN so I get renewed every 2 hours. Expiration happenes afetr about 5
> > to 7 days. Using dhcpcd will start a new lease as needed.
>
> SHOULDN'T use pump? I disagree.
>
> Pump is configurable: /etc/pump.conf
>
> You can put entries in there to tell it to increase the number of retries
> and the timeouts. Once I did this, pump works just fine, from several
> different locations with several different DSL providers.
>
> Example of /etc/pump.conf
>
> device eth1 {
> retries 3
> timeout 90
> }
>
> There are more parameters available, too. Check out man pump for full
> set.
>
> As I said, pump.conf cleared up any problems I had with establishing and
> keeping leases.
>
> The advantage of pump is that it's part of the standard vanilla Red Hat
> distro, which I've tried to maintain in my many installations.
This is exactly why I am going to try going back on the perm firewall box.
Thanks for the pump tips.
Bret
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