Thus spake farber@admin.f-tech.net
that is my question. if LCP echo/reply is traffic, why is the bytes in/out staying at 0?
Because the bytes in/out is almost assuredly reporting network level traffic...which LCP isn't...LCP is a lower level...the idle timer seems to be functioning at the PPP level (and this tracks with what I've been told in the past) while the byte counters are functioning at the IP (IPX, appletalk, etc.) level....so the LCP echo req's and responses are resetting the idle timer, but not tripping the byte counters.
Also, what is the normal lcp echo/reply timing? once every second? it would seem by your explination that no link would ever idle timeout if lcp echo's are being sent.
There is no "normal" timing...its implementation specific as to how often it wants to send out echo reqs...and a requirement of PPP to respond to echo requests whenever they're received (I'm pretty sure I have this all right). -- 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.