Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:42:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, 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: <199807291942.UAA04429@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:24:33 %2B0930." <35BF0D79.8D8194E@camtech.net.au>
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The default redial period is 30 seconds. Ppp will not reopen the
modem until this time has elapsed.
I've made some modifications so that you can now ``open!'' or
``dial!'' to ignore the redial timer.
> 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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> \=====================================================================/
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> quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some
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>
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