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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijp Idle Timeout Date: 18 Jul 1996 16:25:07 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4sll0j$cp@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <DuJI7K.9uF@mv.mv.com> <4sblto$c7k@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sekek$b5u@cronkite.cisco.com> <4shlb6$7me@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote: : : |> I've got iijppp up and running, but I can't seem to get the idle timeout : : |> to disappear. I've entered 0 thinking that this would remove the : : |> timeout, but soon after there is no activity the modem hangs up. Am I : : | : : |Make sure to set the timeout before dialing. It seems to be ignored : : |otherwise. : : : : No. Set the timeout *after* dialing in the ip-up script or as the last : : timeout in the dialing chat. Set it to something large. If you set it : : before dialing, and you use a timeout in the dial chat, the dialing timeout : : will override the initial timeout. : The matter must be more complicated. I set my timeout to zero before : dialing and I specify a timeout in my dialing chat script and I do not : have a timeout problem (my idle PPP sessions stay up indefinitely). : I can think of no reason, other than an outright program bug, why : specifying a timeout inside a chat script would change the PPP idle : timeout value. Are we all talking about ijppp (not pppd) ? ijppp certainly doesn't override the timeout in the chat script - not in the 2.1-RELEASE version. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....