Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:49:31 +0200 (METDST) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: gvw@brainaid.dascon.de (Guido von Walter) Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with ppp and idletimeout Message-ID: <m0z8faF-0000dkC@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <199808172033.WAA00388@void1.dascon.de> from Guido von Walter at "Aug 17, 98 10:33:50 pm"
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>From the keyboard of Guido von Walter: > I don't know if my last mail has not reached the list, everybody was on > holiday, the problem is too hard or the question was simply too stupid to > be worth the hassle. Whatever the reason, I have not received a single > response. This is a very rare occasion on this technically excellent and > usually very helpful list. Usually, no response means that noone has an idea ... ;-) > Aug 12 09:50:43 firewall /kernel: isppp0: lcp input(opened): <echo-req id=0x21 l > en=12 22-f6-d9-74-0-6-3f-7b> > Aug 12 09:50:44 firewall /kernel: isppp0: got lcp echo req, sending echo rep > Aug 12 09:50:44 firewall /kernel: isppp0: lcp output <echo-reply id=0x21 len=12 > 35-d9-ec-9c-0-6-3f-7b> > > every ten seconds. In this case, the kernel part sees traffic and this means to it that it must not hangup because something is still going on. > I have read the recent discussion of this in the list archives, but there was > no solution mentioned. It seems that someone who has this problem should/must add some code (to i4b_isppp.c and perhaps other parts) to qualify packets and give the kernel timeout mechanism hints, which traffic is "real" traffic and which traffic can be safely ignored for timeout purposes. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm@hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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