Re: Idle-Timeouts...bit vs. packet

Dick St.Peters (stpeters@netheaven.com)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:17:14 -0400

Jeff Mcadams writes:
> The way that I understand that the Portmasters do idle-timeouts, its
> based purely on whether there is information (of any kind) flowing.
> Most PPP implementations that I'm aware of support a keepalive type of
> filter setup (or something similar) that will let you specify what types
> of packets will reset the idle-timer.

> We called Livingston tech support and they seemed to indicate that this
> was not yet supported (but they would consider adding this support), but

I've wanted this kind of capability for a long time now. I floated
the notion on this list a while back, but there was no response.

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