From owner-freebsd-isdn Sun Oct 3 3:52:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer144.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8393C15290 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 03:52:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: from doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (robert@doyle [129.215.110.29]) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA25125; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:52:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 11:52:11 +0100 Message-Id: <3059.199910031052@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: hm@hcs.de Cc: R.Inder@ed.ac.uk, hm@hcs.de, ust@cert.siemens.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk In-reply-to: (hm@hcs.de) Subject: Re: Upgraded to oblivion Phone: (+44) 7808 492 213 (Mobile)/ (+44) 131 650 4449 (HCRC) From: R.Inder@ed.ac.uk Organisation: Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh Disorganisation: Rampant References: Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) > Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 10:27:18 +0200 (METDST) > Cc: hm@hcs.de, ust@cert.siemens.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG, > richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk > > >From the keyboard of R.Inder@ed.ac.uk: > > > have to watch for. But I don't think it is the heart of the problem: > > tcpdump tells me I'm getting (only) these.... > > : : > Yes, this i an old problem in i4b's sppp/isp driver which has not been > fixed properly until now - an attempt to fix it can be found in i4b's > contrib directory but which has another drawback. > > In short, i4b does not yet ignore LCP-Echo packets for > idletime-hangup calculation and if the other side does not ignore > them too, the line stays up forever. > > As far as i understood it, Brian Somers user ppp(8) handles this situation > properly and ppp(8) is able to work with i4b since 0.82 - perhaps you > might want to give it a try. Thanks for the pointer. > > Incidentally, one thing missing from the documentation that would > > be useful for at least some people is some instructions about > > getting i4b to work "dial on command" rather than "dial on demand". > > Volunteers, raise your hands! :-) Indeed... Any thoughts on why release 83 fails where release 70 works? > hellmuth Robert. -- _ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |_)obert Inder, (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~robert/) | \ Research Fellow, HCRC, (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/) University of Edinburgh, 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW SCOTLAND ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Best Viewed in Ebriated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message