From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 19:50:27 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA16575 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:50:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA16570; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:50:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.6.9) id OAA15781; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:50:10 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:50:10 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: dicen@hooked.net, nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User ppp not hanging up modem. References: <32BBA85F.41C67EA6@hooked.net> <199612211751.KAA27123@rocky.mt.sri.com> <32BBB4C1.794BDF32@hooked.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from David Nugent on Dec 22, 1996 14:16:59 +1100 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Following up my own post. :-) David Nugent writes: > > Interesting. But, what exactly is the prabobalitity of that? I will have > > think about this one. > > The probability of it happening is very very small, given that > there must also be a two minute "silence" from the DTE both before two /minute/? Sheesh, get off the tap water. I meant seconds. And I believe Michael is correct that 0.5 seconds is the standard setting - I've always raised it as a matter of course. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freefall.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/