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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Tom Jackson wrote:

> Does anybody have a clue as how to set up 'keep Alive filters' (afilter)
> for iijppp user ppp. I tried the example given, changing parameter
> values to no avail. I'm using a NT4.0 isp ( hey the price was right) and
> keep getting droppedoff because of inactivity, you know reading my
> browser. 

Note that iijppp has it's own timeout clock, set to 5 minutes by default.
Try adding

set timeout 0

to your ISP profile and see if that remedies it.

(NT dialup box?  Ugh....)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major