From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 28 12:04:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11742 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyberia.com (cyberia.com [205.160.224.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11734 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:04:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmann@cyberia.com) Received: from cyberia.com ([208.3.220.50]) by cyberia.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.08) id 0116400 ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:12:50 EST Message-ID: <3687E4F8.17882976@cyberia.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:07:20 -0500 From: Glen Mann Organization: Phrantic Physics X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PPP keepalive filters Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello- My ISP drops my connections after a ridiculously short inactivity. Apparently the afilters are the way to keep the connection alive, however, the documentation does not say what the following do: # # KeepAlive filters # Don't keep Alive with ICMP,DNS and RIP packet # set afilter 0 deny icmp set afilter 1 deny udp src eq 53 set afilter 2 deny udp dst eq 53 set afilter 3 deny udp src eq 520 set afilter 4 deny udp dst eq 520 set afilter 5 permit 0/0 0/0 What actually happens, especially where performance is concerned? Would it be better to send a ping packet every few minutes? Thanks -Glen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message