On Saturday 07 July 2001 11:09 am, Dallam Wych wrote:
> If you do a man pppd and search idle ( /idleCR does that where CR
> means the enter key), you will see the parameter idle n which stops
> your side of the ppp connection after n seconds of inactivity (saves
> you money if you forget to drop the line here in the UK...).
<snip>
> Try setting your idle seconds to about 1800 and see if it makes a
> difference, I know that it did with mine.
> Dallam
Thanks! I posted my /etc/ppp/options a little bit ago. It has
idle 600, but I'm not sure it is doing what it is supposed to. I had a
14 M rpm to download the other day, went out for a couple hours and
came back. The connection to the ftp had died but I was still on-line,
long after 600 seconds.
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Tony Alfrey
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