Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:06:21 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, FreeBSD CURRENT <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp driving me nuts Message-ID: <199807290706.IAA10327@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 15:45:16 %2B0930." <35BEBDF4.4431DED0@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Hmm, I guess the ``dial'' command should nuke the redial timer if it exists. This is a bug. The redial timer is used by the datalink state machine to honour your ``set redial''. I'll fix it. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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