From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 4:53:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B44437B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0078443E65 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:53:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g88BrBUc005742; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:53:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g88Br6nD005741; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:53:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:53:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Robert Tan Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: tcpdump VJC Message-ID: <20020908115305.GB4731@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020907160140.GA274@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 09:35:05AM +0200, Robert Tan wrote: > But what kind of traffic is it. The reason for > asking is that I've configured my isdn connection, > to the internet, to hang up after a given amount > of time, when there is no traffic over the link. > > So my connection is not closing, and I'm assuming > because of the VJC stuff. Where does it come from? That's possible, but all the VJC stuff is just more familiar sorts of traffic run through the compression algorithm. To tell what it is that's stopping your ISDN connection timing out properly, you're (almost definitely) going to have to switch off the VJ compression temporarily while you run tcpdump and work out what's keeping you up all hours. You should be able to do that fairly readily: as I understand it, using VJC is negociated between the PPP endpoints when the link is bought up. For instance, if you're using the usermode ppp(8) you can put: deny vjcomp disable vjcomp into /etc/ppp/ppp.conf (deny ... means that this end refuses if the other end asks for it, disable ... means this end won't ask for it.) Other PPP implementations should have equivalent knobs to twiddle. If you're using the isdn4bsd stuff, I think you need a command something like: ispppcontrol isp0 disable-vj but that's just my interpretation of the ispppcontrol(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message