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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: iijp Idle Timeout
Date: 18 Jul 1996 16:25:07 +0100
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Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: : |> I've got iijppp up and running, but I can't seem to get the idle timeout 
: : |> to disappear.  I've entered 0 thinking that this would remove the 
: : |> timeout, but soon after there is no activity the modem hangs up.  Am I 
: : |
: : |Make sure to set the timeout before dialing.  It seems to be ignored
: : |otherwise.
: : 
: : No.  Set the timeout *after* dialing in the ip-up script or as the last
: : timeout in the dialing chat.  Set it to something large.  If you set it
: : before dialing, and you use a timeout in the dial chat, the dialing timeout
: : will override the initial timeout.

: The matter must be more complicated.  I set my timeout to zero before
: dialing and I specify a timeout in my dialing chat script and I do not
: have a timeout problem (my idle PPP sessions stay up indefinitely).
: I can think of no reason, other than an outright program bug, why
: specifying a timeout inside a chat script would change the PPP idle
: timeout value.

Are we all talking about ijppp (not pppd) ?  ijppp certainly doesn't
override the timeout in the chat script - not in the 2.1-RELEASE version.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....