From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 15: 2:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-52.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D91215401 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.5]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25466; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:02:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dev.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA12345; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:02:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@dev.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199907142202.XAA12345@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christoph Sold Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP RecvEchoReply -- how to keep them off my line? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:29:08 +0200." <199907142129.XAA02817@kiste.cheasy.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:02:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi Folks, > > apologies for asking a FAQ, but I could not find it in the (3.1-R) > Handbook solved. > > Looking through /var/log/ppp.log while dialed into one of my ISPs, every 10 > seconds a packet crawls through the line: > ------ > Jul 14 23:20:27 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoRequest(34) state = Opened > Jul 14 23:20:27 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendEchoReply(34) state = Opened > Jul 14 23:20:37 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoRequest(35) state = Opened > Jul 14 23:20:37 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendEchoReply(35) state = Opened > ------ > > Annoyingly, this keeps the connection from timing out. Is this a ppp > feature I can deny? You can't deny it - sending the reply is mandatory (well, nearly - from memory, ppp *MAY* decide not to send the packet, but if it gets a repeat REQ, it *MUST* reply). This should *not* refresh the idle timer though. Does ``show b'' say otherwise (with ``set log +hdlc lcp phase'' showing if traffic is arriving) ? > Thanks in advance > -Christoph Sold -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message