Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:45:16 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp driving me nuts Message-ID: <35BEBDF4.4431DED0@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <Pine.OSF.3.90.980728191146.27979A-100000@mercury>
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I use usermode ppp as "ppp target" where my target does the dial (after setting authkey etc). If the first dial fails (say due to the number being busy) typing 'dial' at the 'ppp' prompt makes ppp do nothing until the original dial timeout has elapsed (at least that's how it appears to me). So rather than waiting 40 seconds or so (my dial timeout is 120 sec) I quit ppp and just type "ppp target" again. This is nothing to do with redial timeouts I think its the original dial timeout that is still ticking away for some reason even though ppp has already told me that the first dial has failed. Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > I seem to recall that theres a 3 minute idle timeout which cannot be > > > overridden if you start the ppp session from interactive mode. I often > > > > Why wouldn't "set timeout 0" override? I load my provider profile with > > a "load" directive in the conf file, and just log in as ppp with ppp as > > my shell and type "dial", btw. And a "show timers" doesn't show any > > idle timer running. > > I just know that doing that never seemed to prevent the session from > timing out after 3 minutes. I was going to get around to > investigating this further & submitting a formal report, but it seems to > have come up anyway :) > > I also seem to remember something about the redial timeout not quite > working as it is documented in the manpages.. > > Kris > > > > > > > Ben > > > > "You have your mind on computers, it seems." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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