From owner-freebsd-isdn Mon Aug 17 23:47:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07809 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 23:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA07804 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 23:47:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (2425 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:47:00 +0200 (METDST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2 built 1998-Jun-26) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m0z8faF-0000dkC; Tue, 18 Aug 98 08:49 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Problems with ppp and idletimeout In-Reply-To: <199808172033.WAA00388@void1.dascon.de> from Guido von Walter at "Aug 17, 98 10:33:50 pm" To: gvw@brainaid.dascon.de (Guido von Walter) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:49:31 +0200 (METDST) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >From the keyboard of Guido von Walter: > I don't know if my last mail has not reached the list, everybody was on > holiday, the problem is too hard or the question was simply too stupid to > be worth the hassle. Whatever the reason, I have not received a single > response. This is a very rare occasion on this technically excellent and > usually very helpful list. Usually, no response means that noone has an idea ... ;-) > Aug 12 09:50:43 firewall /kernel: isppp0: lcp input(opened): en=12 22-f6-d9-74-0-6-3f-7b> > Aug 12 09:50:44 firewall /kernel: isppp0: got lcp echo req, sending echo rep > Aug 12 09:50:44 firewall /kernel: isppp0: lcp output 35-d9-ec-9c-0-6-3f-7b> > > every ten seconds. In this case, the kernel part sees traffic and this means to it that it must not hangup because something is still going on. > I have read the recent discussion of this in the list archives, but there was > no solution mentioned. It seems that someone who has this problem should/must add some code (to i4b_isppp.c and perhaps other parts) to qualify packets and give the kernel timeout mechanism hints, which traffic is "real" traffic and which traffic can be safely ignored for timeout purposes. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm@hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message