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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:24:33 +0930
From:      Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, FreeBSD CURRENT <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ppp driving me nuts
Message-ID:  <35BF0D79.8D8194E@camtech.net.au>
References:  <199807290706.IAA10327@awfulhak.org>

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I dont know what you mean by my use of "set redial".

Here's my ppp.conf:



default:
 set log chat connect phase
 set device /dev/cuaa1
 set speed 115200
 deny lqr
 deny pap
 set timeout 0
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0L0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 120 CONNECT"
 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0

target:
 set phone <phone_num>
 set login
 set authname <bleep>
 set authkey <bleep>
 dial

Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> 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

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