From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 22:53:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA12113 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA12108 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:53:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00696; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:53:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 22:53:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: john kenagy cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp (interactive) and timeout In-Reply-To: <199702140447.WAA00248@bga.com> 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, 13 Feb 1997, john kenagy wrote: > Greetings, > > It's me again with more novice questions. While I've got the interactive > ppp working I'm still trying to work out a few kinks. > > I am trying to get it to work as an on demand process but it never seems to > time out and disconnect. I am using the examples provided in the files > as distributed and those I've found in the documentation. It always starts > and I can use the connection just fine. Even when I close all the applications > that might use ppp and leave it for 3 or 4 times longer than the "timeout" > variable it still seems to be connected. That is, checking email is almost > immediate and there is no dialing etc. (I'm using 2.1.5R) Are you sure the connection's completely idle? The system may be doing things (dns lookups, etc) that you may not be aware of. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major