On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 09:34:59AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Coleman writes:
>
> > Is the problem that disconnection takes three minutes and you want
> > to change that time?
> >
> > You might want to adjust a filter rule that looks something
> > like the following:
> >
> > accept tcp 120 tcp.dest=tcp.www
> > accept tcp 120 tcp.source=tcp.www
> >
> > You can change the '120' to be any number of seconds that
> > you want. On my machine I actually made it longer because
> > I multitask a lot, and hence read more slowly.
>
> ***************************
>
> Hi, Tim,
>
> Thank you very much indeed for your quick response to my query.
>
> I've tried adjusting the filter rule as you suggested. However,
> reducing the figure seems to provoke a timeout if I'm in Netscape,
> for example, and the disconnection time remains the same.
>
> What I am looking for is:
>
> a) rapid reconnection if the line has dropped;
> b) rapid disconnection when I have finished with the service.
Oh. I see. I'm not sure exactly what you mean. You're saying the
problem is not the timeout itself, but that the modem takes a long
time to go through the hangup process? If so, that sounds really
weird.
> Any ideas?
>
> Also, I'd like to find some documentation on filtering. Could you
> point me in the right direction, please?
The diald manpage contains some information on filtering.
HTH
Tim
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