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Date:      	Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:30:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@haven.uniserve.com>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   pppd inactivity timeout?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950226222335.20527H-100000@haven.uniserve.com>

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  I would like to add an inactivity timeout to pppd so that pppd would 
hang-up after 10 minutes or so of inactivity on the line.  The simplest 
way I could find of doing this is to enable a new timeout using the 
timeout() function provided to start enable the timeout, then use 
back-to-back calls of untimeout() and timeout() to reset the timeout 
value within the io() function.  Anyways, I have two questions:

  - will it work?  will it affect stability?

  - is there a better way of doing this?  calling untimeout() and 
timeout() upon every invocation of io() may induce alot of overhead...

  Comments are welcome...

Tom



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