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Subject: setting the hdlc timer in ppp?
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In my ongoing strugle to get ppp to connect over a link that tales a _very_
long time to come up, I've come to suspect that the hdlc timer is timing
out (based upon it's default of 55 seconds seeming to be when my timeouts
occur).

Can I increase this timer's lentgh in /etc/ppp.conf?

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