From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 15 14:27:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16887 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from darkstar (dialin6.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.252.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA16882 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 14:27:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cmott@localhost) by darkstar (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA10898; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:27:15 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:27:12 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: User ppp keepalive logic Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was thinking it would be a good idea to only run keepalive logic on incoming packets and not outgoing packets in user ppp. With one ISP I use, I often run into a situation where the link hangs up, and no communication is possible, but user ppp thinks everything is ok. Unfortunately the link stays alive, because I have a mailer that keeps trying to look at an imap server, or a Win95 box on the local network is doing something stupid. If the keepalive only worked on incoming packets, it would handle the error condition where packets go out but never come back. I am going to do this for my own purposes, but I wondered whether people felt it might be a good idea for the freebsd distribution. Charles Mott