From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 17:26:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27120 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.wmich.edu (gw.wmich.edu [141.218.1.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27115 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:26:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piglet.cc.wmich.edu (piglet.cc.wmich.edu [141.218.20.105]) by gw.wmich.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA03509; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:26:20 -0400 Received: from wmich.edu by wmich.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #5064) id <01I3FFCTWTW0B8TNTU@wmich.edu>; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:25:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:25:33 -0400 (EDT) From: -=WireHead=- Subject: Re: Filters in pppiij In-reply-to: <316D1983.55C@uswest.com> To: "Paul T. Root" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: "Timothy.Butkiewicz" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: low Priority: low Sensitivity: none Encrypted?: no Comments: none Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > 2511, and everything seems fine. Except, it never drops the line. > I have timeout set to 120. I was reading the man page and looked Do you possible have network trafiic running trhough the link? i.e. ntpdate or a time program? Maybe an IP broadcast? Without traffic, your line should drop if timeout is set to 120. try running tcpdump for a few minutes and see if there is traffic on your system going (or leaking) out through you PPP line. > at ppp.conf.filter.sample, and that looks like exactly what I want. > However, the man page doesn't say how to install it so ppp will > look at it. my suggestion would be not to use ppp.filter if you don't *need* to. The file worls like this. Simply copy ppp.conf.filter.sample to ppp.conf.sample and then edit what is necessary in ppp.conf.filter ijppp will automatically see it. +-----------------------> *)(* WireHead *)(* <-----------------------+ |Feed the NOiSe in2 the .SYS fone: 616.349.8044| |Please end destructive system_X: 616.373.6680| | nuclear testing http://arbornet.org/~wirehead| | ! PGP Key available upon request. ! eMail:wirehead@pobox.com| [<*>]--------------------------------[<*>]--------------------------------[<*>] Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org finger u6butkie@lab.cc.wmich.edu *---------------------------------------------*