From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 00:03:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA29015 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:03:27 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA28983 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:03:20 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19062; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:03:10 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA08439 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:03:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA22098 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:47:47 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506260647.IAA22098@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ij-ppp "problem" - my face is red! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 08:47:47 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <389.804141661@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 05:41:01 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 705 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > ... If > not, would the ijppp designers perhaps consider a new type of filter > for designating packets that don't change the timeout counter? I'm > not talking about `dfilter', which prohibits a packet from triggering > _dialing_, I'm talking about a filter which says "accept this packet, > but don't bias the timeout with it - if nothing BUT these packets come > in you can still hang up the line when the timer expires." That would also be necessary to prevent a bozo from keeping your line up by constantly pinging you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)