From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 11:01:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA25297 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA25288 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 10492 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jan 1999 19:01:13 -0000 Message-ID: <19990128190113.10491.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 05:01:12 +1000 From: Greg Black To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Idle timeouts for pppd(8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like to hear from anybody who has successfully got pppd to drop a connection when the idle timeout expires, using the "active-filter" mechanism to filter out packets that don't count for real activity. I have built a kernel pppd with PPP_FILTER defined, but have had no luck in getting it to work. I get no complaints, but the line stays up for ever. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message