From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 18 12:29:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-18.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1696154AA for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02420; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:29:42 GMT (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA25841; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:35:35 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199911180735.HAA25841@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: "Andrew Reilly" Cc: Josef Karthauser , Julian Elischer , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: netgraph into -stable. (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message from "Andrew Reilly" of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:05:14 +1100." <19991118090514.A95037@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 07:35:33 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message