On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Brett Wallace wrote:
> In the man page this is described as the timeout used to drop the link,
> if no packets have crossed the link.
>
> Though it seems what this timeout REALLY does, is times out if a packet
> in not received from the remote peer. As in my case this timeout will
> expire if diald dials up the remote peer, sends all its packets that are
> buffered, hence packets actually cross the link but only in one
> direction.
Ah, are you *sure* the buffered packets actually cross the
link? If you are running "dynamic" or "sticky" then you are
probably getting bitten by the "buffered packets disappear
into a black hole" bug :-).
Mike
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