From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 15 23:02:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA16674 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 23:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA16668 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 23:02:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA08177; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 23:01:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:59:13 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Charles Mott cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User ppp keepalive logic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote: > I was thinking it would be a good idea to only run keepalive logic on > incoming packets and not outgoing packets in user ppp. > > With one ISP I use, I often run into a situation where the link hangs up, > and no communication is possible, but user ppp thinks everything is ok. > Unfortunately the link stays alive, because I have a mailer that keeps > trying to look at an imap server, or a Win95 box on the local network is > doing something stupid. > > If the keepalive only worked on incoming packets, it would handle the > error condition where packets go out but never come back. > > I am going to do this for my own purposes, but I wondered whether people > felt it might be a good idea for the freebsd distribution. Charles, check out mpd (multilink ppp daemon) in ftp.freebsd.org pub/FreeBSD/incoming > > Charles Mott > I'm not sure which version is there at the miment, but I know archie was doing quite a bit with this problem... failing that, I'd definitly have a word with him about it.. I believe he's gone to vegas for the weekend ;) but he'll be back tuesday julian > >