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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IIJ-PPP Questions
Date: 27 Oct 1996 14:36:43 GMT
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perry@bcm.tmc.edu (John Perry) wrote:

> 1. What does the configuration parameter "lqr" do? I noticed it was
> denied in the sample ppp.conf file. I can't find any reference to "lqr"
> in the PPP RFC.

link quality r? (recognition?).  /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/lqr.h mentions
RFC1333.

> 2. In the sample line:
> 
> set ifilter 13 permit tcp src eq 110 estab
> 
> What does the "estab" descriptor mean? What is it's purpose?

"established" TCP connection, i.e. the SYN packets have been passed
and are acknowledged.

Don't ask me more about it though... never used it myself.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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