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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!usenet.cisco.com!iverson From: iverson@cisco.com (Tim Iverson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: iijp Idle Timeout Date: 20 Jul 1996 00:12:50 GMT Organization: cisco Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4sp8a2$ise@cronkite.cisco.com> References: <DuJI7K.9uF@mv.mv.com> <4sekek$b5u@cronkite.cisco.com> <4shlb6$7me@agate.berkeley.edu> <4sll0j$cp@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: rottweiler.cisco.com In article <4sll0j$cp@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: |Dan Strick (dan@math.berkeley.edu) wrote: |: : |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). | |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. In IIJPPP have three timeout statements. One before chat, one in chat, and one after (in the link-up script). If I remove the one after, the line is closed 180 seconds after dialing -- oddly enough, this is precisely the value of the chat timeout. I'm running 2.1 release. - Tim Iverson iverson@lionheart.com