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From: conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: FreeBSD user-level PPP (iijppp) times out
Date: 23 Jun 1996 17:19:11 GMT
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In article <31CD508E.3394@cc.odu.edu>,
Jonathan Sturges  <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>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!!
>
>Supposedly, using the 'set timeout 0' command should prevent iijppp from
>breaking the link, no matter how much idle time you have.  This doesn't
>seem to be the case, however.
>I'm quite sure it's iijppp's fault, and not on the server end, because I
>can use any of 5 or so Windoze 3.1x PPP clients, dialing into the same
>server, and they never timeout & disconnect.

That's weird.  I use "set timeout 0" and never get a timeout disconnect.

>I believe the version of ppp I'm using is 0.94.  Is this a known problem
>that may have been addressed in subsequent releases?

Being fairly new to this, I can't say.  :-)

Wish I could be more helpful.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads