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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: FreeBSD user-level PPP (iijppp) times out
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Date: 26 Jun 1996 14:09:40 -0500
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Jonathan Sturges (jonathan@cc.odu.edu) wrote:
: 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!!

Maybe your other connections (Win/DOS) send keepalive type traffic &
ijppp doesn't.  Have you got lcp disabled in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ?

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....