[Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout for a modemconnection?

[Mark Broadbent]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:47 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> No ADSL until late June.
> 
> When I am talking about background Internet activity, I am not talking about web browser sessions etc, although these count of course.  What I am talking about are all the broadcasts, connection attempts and pings etc that go on whilst connected which of course resets the timer.

Hi there,

What you basically need is to use the active-filter configuration
directive in pppd.  This allows you to specify what pppd will consider
as active traffic and should solve the idle timeout problem.

I found this http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x7297.html that
lists the active-filter directive and this
http://users3.ev1.net/~ckite/public_html/enhanced-idle.html actually
gives a couple of example filter expressions (the expression are libpcap
expressions I believe).

Thanks
Mark

BTW, Why does Microsoft Exchange insist on putting a tab character at
the 60 character in the subject line?

> Hth.
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Julian Robbins
> Sent: Wed 02/03/2005 00:36
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout fora	modemconnection?
>  
> Hi
> 
> Thanks Andrew,
> 
> I agree with what you've found. Some sites, do allow a disconnect, 
> because there is no traffic passing upward or downward, but there's many 
> that keep an active connection, so do not allow the connection to drop. 
> The only way I can get it to work, is to make sure that the web broswer 
> window is closed too.
> 
> By the way, has your area got ADSL as yet ?? I know virtually all the 
> county's exchanges will be enabled by July this year.
> 
> Julian
> 
> Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have had real issues with this myself here because after say 15
> > minutes of inactivity, such a thing does not exist with background
> > Internet traffic.  The best I got it to was around 1 minute on a dialup
> > connection of inactivity, which of course was too quick.  Unfortunately
> > I haven't messed with diald options and have only used Smoothwall to do
> > this, and as I use an ISDN connection now through a router have
> > forgotten exactly where in the interface I went to get it working.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Andrew.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
> > Robbins
> > Sent: 01 March 2005 20:09
> > To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> > Subject: [Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout for a
> > modemconnection?
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas how i specify in a linux ppp connection a timeout so the modem
> > line drops say after 15 mins ?
> > 
> > Julian
> > 
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