Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:35:33 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: netgraph into -stable. (fwd) Message-ID: <199911180735.HAA25841@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:05:14 %2B1100." <19991118090514.A95037@gurney.reilly.home>
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> How does a PPPoE system know when you've disconnected? Is there
> a keepalive scheme? The cable authentication system here (BIDS2,
> apparently an HP thing) keeps the routers open as long as you
> respond to the regular heartbeat messages.
The rfc *recommends* that the provider sends LQR echo requests, but
there's no enforced mechanism.
It's all in rfc2516... :-)
> --
> Andrew
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