From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 12:16:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23751 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23745 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id PAA21653; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jandrese.async.vt.edu (jandrese.async.vt.edu [128.173.20.208]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA10085; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:19:43 +0000 () From: Nessus X-Sender: jandrese@jandrese.async.vt.edu To: Jeffrey Auerbach cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Auerbach wrote: > I have just set up ppp on my system. Lately I have been getting kicked > off my isp for an idle timeout. I have only been idle for maybe 2.5 > minutes. This used to never happen before. Is it me or the ISP? > > Enclosed is a " tail -18 ppp.log " Check it out for yourself. > Thanks PPP's default timeout is very short (only about 200 seconds or so). All you have to do is set the timeout in the ppp.conf. It will look something like set timeout ### where ### is the number of seconds until it times out. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::. . . . . ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Jason Andresen :. . . . . . . . . : Nessus :: :: jandrese@vt.edu :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:: nessus@vt.edu :: :.........................: Quote of the day :..........................: If little else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins :::::::::::.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.........................:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:::::::::::