From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 23 12:53:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5278F14E44 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 12:53:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA28513; Sun, 23 May 1999 20:03:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05631; Sun, 23 May 1999 20:02:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199905231902.UAA05631@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bart Trzynadlowski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping ppp up -- need some help In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 May 1999 09:11:11 PDT." <3.0.5.32.19990523091111.007f4290@powernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 20:02:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > I have installed FreeBSD 3.1 on my system and have PPP working in > interactive mode (not automatic mode) but if I leave it idle for just a > small amount of time (a minute or 2 without any network activity) I find it > silently disconnects. I thought it was related to the timeout value in the > /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file but I removed that and it still occurs. Any ideas? [.....] You need to ``set timeout 0'' as the default is 3 minutes. > Thanks a lot in advance! > > Bart Trzynadlowski -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message