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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 19:13:13 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ben@rosengart.com
Cc:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp driving me nuts
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.90.980728191146.27979A-100000@mercury>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9807280456210.3922-100000@echonyc.com>

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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > I seem to recall that theres a 3 minute idle timeout which cannot be 
> > overridden if you start the ppp session from interactive mode. I often 
> 
> Why wouldn't "set timeout 0" override?  I load my provider profile with
> a "load" directive in the conf file, and just log in as ppp with ppp as
> my shell and type "dial", btw.  And a "show timers" doesn't show any
> idle timer running.

I just know that doing that never seemed to prevent the session from 
timing out after 3 minutes. I was going to get around to 
investigating this further & submitting a formal report, but it seems to 
have come up anyway :)

I also seem to remember something about the redial timeout not quite 
working as it is documented in the manpages..

Kris

> 
> 
>  Ben
> 
> "You have your mind on computers, it seems." 
> 

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