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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!conrads From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: Re: FreeBSD user-level PPP (iijppp) times out Date: 23 Jun 1996 17:19:11 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qjuaf$92h@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <31CD508E.3394@cc.odu.edu> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.146 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21973 comp.protocols.ppp:14344 In article <31CD508E.3394@cc.odu.edu>, Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> wrote: >Hi, >I've been using iijppp in FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE for quite a while, with >great success... and *one* complaint. > >I can't keep it from timing out!! > >Supposedly, using the 'set timeout 0' command should prevent iijppp from >breaking the link, no matter how much idle time you have. This doesn't >seem to be the case, however. >I'm quite sure it's iijppp's fault, and not on the server end, because I >can use any of 5 or so Windoze 3.1x PPP clients, dialing into the same >server, and they never timeout & disconnect. That's weird. I use "set timeout 0" and never get a timeout disconnect. >I believe the version of ppp I'm using is 0.94. Is this a known problem >that may have been addressed in subsequent releases? Being fairly new to this, I can't say. :-) Wish I could be more helpful. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads