From owner-freebsd-isdn Tue Jul 27 0:24:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from brain.element-5.de (brain.element-5.de [195.185.111.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE8014DFA for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 00:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@element-5.de) Received: from mail.element-5.de (mail.element-5.de [195.185.111.25]) by brain.element-5.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26133; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:22:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:22:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: Dirk Nerling , freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can somebody explain me the followings dial / never disconnects? In-Reply-To: <199907262228.AAA41571@peedub.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Gary, On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Paul Herman writes: > >Hi Dirk, > > > >I wrote a kernel patch for this, and should be in the contrib/ directory > >of your i4b distribution, but I wrote it for 0.70 and don't know if it > >works for any later versions. My patch basicaly adds an idle timer to > >sppp(4) just like ppp(4) has had all these years. > > > >This is a bug, that needs to be fixed. > > > > one could just as easily argue that this is a bug in the CISCO router > and CISCO should fix it. Or the administrator of the router should > turn off the echo requests. Yes, that's true, but I think it would be nice if i4b could be a bit more tolerant. After all, echo requests have a purpose and are not so uncommon (or should I say, CISCO routers are not so uncommon), and besides, it is just a small bit of code to change. > There was a reason why your patch wasn't integrated, although I can't > remember what it was right now. I think Helmuth was waiting for it to be tested by PPPers before he integrated it. You'll have to ask him. I wonder what kind of feedback he has gotten on it (if any). I haven't gotten any until your email. > I think because it effectively disables the short hold timer which > we've all come to know and love. Well, I didn't say it was a good patch. :) Unfortunately we didn't use the short hold timer, so I never got around to it (this was a sunday morning emergency kernel patch.) For the people who like adventure: It is just a simple 'if' statement. Anyone familiar with the i4b code (and 5-10 minutes of ambition) can figure out what I did and fix up the short hold 'if' condition. Thanks for the input. Someday I might get to it myself. I just don't have the time right now. At this moment it is "cooking" here, and I'm going on vacation after tomorrow. So, use the patch at your own risk! :) Gruß, Paul Herman Netzwerkadministrator -------------------------------------------------------------- _____ 5 + element 5 AG - Sachsenring 69 - 50677 Köln - Germany + / _ \ + + | <_> | + Tel: +49-221-31088-0 Fax: +49-221-31088-99 + | ___/ + Mail: pherman@element-5.de WWW: http://www.element-5.de/ + | |__/\ -------------------------------------------------------------- \ / --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message