Thus spake Tatai SV Krishnan
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 farber@admin.f-tech.net wrote:
Then either no link should ever time out due to lcp traffic or there is something wrong with the link because of these lcp echo/req packets every 10 seconds.
Which is more correct?
I did not understand your question. Idle time out basically means if the line is idle for a set number of seconds/min then disconnect the same. lcp echo is a normal lcp type ping if you will that is done by certain clients. If this happens it means that there is traffic on the wire so the line is not idle. So do not disconnect the same.
Hrmm...kinda violates the concept of least surprise there. :/ Anyway...this would be reason enough to renew my age-old call for the ability to specify what traffic is to reset the idle time. (Useful also for those of us that would like to prevent someone from setting their POP mail reader to check mail every 2 minutes to defeat idle timeouts). -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.