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From: rcbapb@urc.tue.nl (Peter Benschop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp timeout problem with direct cable connection
Date: 31 Aug 1996 19:35:42 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
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References: <4vs21k$1rk@tuegate.tue.nl> <32234362.446B9B3D@diac.com>
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In article <32234362.446B9B3D@diac.com>,
Paul M. Newhouse <pimin@diac.com> wrote:
>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

I just came to the conclusion myself that 838839778 seconds is in fact a
looong time. Unfortunately, in practice it means 3 days 21 hours and some
minutes. Don't ask me why the log file shows this ridiculous number....

Peter.
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