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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:02:25 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Christoph Sold <cs@cheasy.de>
Cc:        Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP RecvEchoReply -- how to keep them off my line? 
Message-ID:  <199907142202.XAA12345@dev.lan.awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:29:08 %2B0200." <199907142129.XAA02817@kiste.cheasy.de> 

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> Hi Folks,
> 
> apologies for asking a FAQ, but I could not find it in the (3.1-R)
> Handbook solved.
> 
> Looking through /var/log/ppp.log while dialed into one of my ISPs, every 10
> seconds a packet crawls through the line:
> ---<snip>---
> Jul 14 23:20:27 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoRequest(34) state = Opened 
> Jul 14 23:20:27 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendEchoReply(34) state = Opened 
> Jul 14 23:20:37 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: RecvEchoRequest(35) state = Opened 
> Jul 14 23:20:37 kiste ppp[1967]: tun0: LCP: deflink: SendEchoReply(35) state = Opened 
> ---<snip>---
> 
> Annoyingly, this keeps the connection from timing out. Is this a ppp
> feature I can deny?

You can't deny it - sending the reply is mandatory (well, nearly - 
from memory, ppp *MAY* decide not to send the packet, but if it gets 
a repeat REQ, it *MUST* reply).

This should *not* refresh the idle timer though.  Does ``show b'' say 
otherwise (with ``set log +hdlc lcp phase'' showing if traffic is 
arriving) ?

> Thanks in advance
> -Christoph Sold

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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