From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 28 02:59:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10992 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10981 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 02:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from mercury (mercury [129.127.36.44]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id TAA07364; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:13:14 +0930 (CST) Received: by mercury; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/27Nov97-0404PM) id AA28006; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:13:13 +0930 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:13:13 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@mercury To: ben@rosengart.com Cc: "Jan B. Koum " , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp driving me nuts In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > I seem to recall that theres a 3 minute idle timeout which cannot be > > overridden if you start the ppp session from interactive mode. I often > > Why wouldn't "set timeout 0" override? I load my provider profile with > a "load" directive in the conf file, and just log in as ppp with ppp as > my shell and type "dial", btw. And a "show timers" doesn't show any > idle timer running. I just know that doing that never seemed to prevent the session from timing out after 3 minutes. I was going to get around to investigating this further & submitting a formal report, but it seems to have come up anyway :) I also seem to remember something about the redial timeout not quite working as it is documented in the manpages.. Kris > > > Ben > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message