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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: Re: FreeBSD user-level PPP (iijppp) times out Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:28:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4qk9dg$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31CD508E.3394@cc.odu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:22003 comp.protocols.ppp:14349 Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@cc.odu.edu> wrote: > 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. Have you adjusted the idle time from the config file? I found that resetting the idle time to a new value while a connection is already active is apparently not supported (though you don't get an error message, and the program pretends it would use the new idle time -- but it simply doesn't). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)