From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 28 15:59:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15125 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heather.greatbasin.com (heather.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15107 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:58:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max2-12.gbis.net [207.228.60.140]) by heather.greatbasin.com (8.9.0/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23490; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:58:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <042601be32bd$f5374380$010a000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Glen Mann" , Subject: Re: PPP keepalive filters Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:58:13 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you sure it's your ISP who's dropping the connection? What's the value of your "set timeout" line in your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file? Make sure it's set to something longer than the default 300 (5 minutes). --Dan -----Original Message----- From: Glen Mann To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 12:04 PM Subject: PPP keepalive filters >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message