Hi
El 08 Apr 2000 a las 11:07AM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci escribio:
> I'm running diald version 0.16.5 on a Debian 2.1 system.
I am too.
> I'm experiencing a strange problem that may be a diald bug.
I dont think so. Read down.
> My dialup connection is started by a ping packet, that diald
> accepts by a
> rule with a 60 seconds timeout.
>
> After only 5 seconds, diald receives from the remote host a
> packet that is
> ignored because no rules matches it. Just after this, diald close
> the
> connection stating: "Closing down idle link".
In the time i have been using diald 0.16.5 from slink (Debian 2.1), i
haven't had any errors due to idle link time out. Sometimes, my ISP sends
packets to me from the DNS server that maintain the link up (pings, i dont
know the reason), so i have had to add the rule "ignore icmp any" at the
beginning of the filter file. Some other times, when i use Netscape some
time, some FIN ACK packets continue going out without reason. Then, i have
had to add the rule "ignore tcp tcp.fin".
> Why the "Adding connection" message does not have the
> corresponding
> "Deleting connection" in the log and why the 60 seconds timeout
> is not
> respected?
Are you sure you haven't any rule to stop the link when you receive that
packet to the 224 ip address?
Send me your filter file, if you want me to study it.
> I made some experiments: it seems that if I send some other
> packets AFTER
> the one that started the connection, but BEFORE I receive any
> packet from
> the remote host, then the timeout is respected.
This is the confirmation that something is bad in your filter file, i
think.
Bye.
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