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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: Re: FreeBSD user-level PPP (iijppp) times out Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:30:20 -0400 Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31CE986C.2534@cc.odu.edu> References: <31CD508E.3394@cc.odu.edu> <4qk9dg$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyprus.usg.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22041 comp.protocols.ppp:14354 J Wunsch wrote: > > Have you adjusted the idle time from the config file? Yes, I've added 'set timeout 0' to the script for the server I'm using. Also, I additionally have tried issuing the timeout command at the PPP command prompt prior to dialing my server. > I found that resetting the idle time to a new value while a connection > is already active is apparently not supported (though you don't get an > error message, and the program pretends it would use the new idle time > -- but it simply doesn't). This is true, but not bad; you can work around this if you're aware of it. What is the latest version of iijppp? I guess I'd like to try upgrading, if possible. thanks, Jonathan