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Date:      Sun, 23 May 1999 20:02:58 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Bart Trzynadlowski <trzy@powernet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: keeping ppp up -- need some help 
Message-ID:  <199905231902.UAA05631@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 May 1999 09:11:11 PDT." <3.0.5.32.19990523091111.007f4290@powernet.net> 

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> Hi,
> 	I have installed FreeBSD 3.1 on my system and have PPP working in
> interactive mode (not automatic mode) but if I leave it idle for just a
> small amount of time (a minute or 2 without any network activity) I find it
> silently disconnects. I thought it was related to the timeout value in the
> /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file but I removed that and it still occurs. Any ideas?
[.....]

You need to ``set timeout 0'' as the default is 3 minutes.

> Thanks a lot in advance!
> 
> Bart Trzynadlowski
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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