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From: "Paul M. Newhouse" <pimin@diac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp timeout problem with direct cable connection
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:50:10 -0600
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Peter Benschop wrote:

>All seems well at first, but every 838839778...840935198 secs I get a
>timeout and the connection drops dead.

Every 26.5+ years ???  I'd be pretty happy with that.

Paul