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- From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.os.linux.networking
- Subject: Re: USR 28.8 *not* disconnecting when connection lost.
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:17:06 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4ftqhi$16po@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <311B793C.5613CDD@engr.udayton.edu>,
- Alex Williamson <awilliam@engr.udayton.edu> wrote:
- | I was having the same problem with my USR 28.8, add this to your pppd:
- | lcp-echo-interval 20 lcp-echo-failure 2
- | This will make the hardware send an echo request every 20 seconds, after
- | 2 failures, pppd will terminate itself. Adjust the numbers as you feel
- | appropriate, but I haven't had a single problem since I added these
- | options.
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- Thanks, this looks like a solution, and I'll try it as soon as I can
- take the link down.
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- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- -Dave Welch
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