From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 2:37:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from new-smtp2.ihug.com.au (new-smtp2.ihug.com.au [203.109.250.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CF414CEF for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alanr@tig.com.au) Received: from tig.com.au (p26-max28.syd.ihug.com.au [206.17.110.26]) by new-smtp2.ihug.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA27437; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:37:39 +1000 Message-ID: <380AEA51.37A7097@tig.com.au> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:37:21 +1000 From: alanr X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charlie & , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP masquerading References: <99101619590100.00738@builtcomp.shred> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ...sounds like the default inactive timeout value. If memory servers me correctly, this is set to 300 seconds (5mins) in the sample script. Change the "set timeout" line in your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to something more of your liking. Charlie & wrote: > hello, I was trying to have my FreeBSD machine to be a gateway to the internet. > I did all the instructions in the FreBSD tutorial and successfully connected to > the internet my LAN was able the Internet too. But around 5 minutes that I'm > connected, I got disconnected automatically. I'm using ppp interactive. I'm > just beginning to do this. Is there any tips or guide you can recomment? > Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message