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From: root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: PPP disconect after a period of time
Date: 13 Jun 1996 01:32:10 GMT
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Derek Snider (derek@idirect.com) wrote:
: The "id=", section of the ppp.sys file doesn't seem to work, (at least in 
: BSDI 2.0.1), and neither does setting idletime with pppconfig. 

It always worked for me with ppp.sys and pppconfig.  The number is in
seconds.

Any traffic on the line resets the timer, so if you are running routed
(without -q) or anything else that generates regular traffic, it will
not bring down the route.

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