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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp auto redial after lost connection? Date: 23 Feb 1997 21:17:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5eqc4k$cch@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc19cb$48ea4760$05e955c2@iaipc0.iai.rssi.ru> <330379AD.41C6@urc.tue.nl> <seth_leigh-1702971340060001@s_leigh.dtint.com> 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:35987 seth_leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh) wrote: > My machine would maintain the connection forever, even though I had set it > up to time out after 5 minutes of inactivity. I tracked down the > offending requests, and discovered that even though I didn't do anything > myself, some sort of traffic went out every 30 seconds. 30 seconds? Boy, that's obvious without reading further. :-) kill routed. -- 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. ;-)