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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP -direct TIMEOUT
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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Neil Bradley wrote:

> My ppp.linkup file contains the following:

[...]

> 
> Shouldn't this set my timeout to 60 minutes? I've created a ppp.linkup 
> file in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup and one in /usr/home/ppp/ppp/ppp.linkup per 
> the man pages for PPP. This setting had absolutely no effect on operations.

No.  The timeout option is in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.  Put 'set timeout 0' to
disable.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major