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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: 15 Feb 1996 23:45:16 GMT
- Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY
- Message-ID: <4g0gic$sus@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
- References: <86ivhtvbms.fsf@janus.csres.utexas.edu> <4fd36g$22r2@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com> <311B793C.5613CDD@engr.udayton.edu> <4ftqhi$16po@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>
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- In article <4ftqhi$16po@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>,
- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
- | 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.
- |
- | Thanks, this looks like a solution, and I'll try it as soon as I can
- | take the link down.
-
- Fixed it. Many thanks. I diddled the numbers a tad, but other than
- that I dropped it in an now pppd dies nicely when the connection
- goes away. Since the CD was dropping right away, I can only guess
- why the "modem" option didn't fix the problem.
-
- I want to look at the code and see if the keepalive packets are only
- sent when the line has been idle, and if so I'll set the time down
- without worrying about loading the line and wasting bandwidth when
- it's busy.
- --
- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
- "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well."
- -Dave Welch
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