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

[Mark Broadbent]

Hello,

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:36 +0000, Noel McG. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I may be missing something here, but if modems are still modems cannot this
> be done using the AT commands.
> Under S registers S30  is inactivity time before hang up.  S30 range/value
> 0-255 10 seconds  Default 0(disabled)

Your absolutely right it can, but you don't have the same level of
control about which traffic you treat as background and foreground.  As
Andrew said there is quite a bit of connection attempts, pings and such
that would reset the counter in the modem and prevent it from hanging
up.

Thanks
Mark

> Noel.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ben Stephens" <foolfodder at gmail.com>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout
> foramodemconnection?
> 
> 
> > >>>I know it happens with the exchange servers at work so suspect it's
> > just a general quirk.  I just find it a little irritating as it messes
> > up the subject line (as it's doing with this email!), seems to be
> > removing spaces as well :-/ Odd!<<<
> >
> > I think that this is something to do with RFC 2045, which specifies
> > how to encode e-mails or possibly MIME e-mails. An except from
> > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html says
> >
> > (5)   (Soft Line Breaks) The Quoted-Printable encoding
> >           REQUIRES that encoded lines be no more than 76
> >           characters long.  If longer lines are to be encoded
> >           with the Quoted-Printable encoding, "soft" line breaks
> >
> >           must be used.  An equal sign as the last character on a
> >           encoded line indicates such a non-significant ("soft")
> >           line break in the encoded text.
> >
> > so maybe it has something to do with that,
> > although, str_len('subject: ') + 60 + str_len('=\r\n') only equals 73,
> > where's those other characters gone? And maybe you don't count the
> > =\r\n any way. Hmmm, I wonder whether me typing in =\r\n will mess up
> > this email at all.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:33:16 +0000, Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:55 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > > > From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
> > > > Broadbent
> > >
> > > > >On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:47 +0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > > > >>> When I am talking about background Internet activity, I am not
> > > > talking about web browser sessions >tc, 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.
> > > >
> > > > >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 - I wish I had seen this a couple of years ago!
> > > >
> > > > >BTW, Why does Microsoft Exchange insist on putting a tab character at
> > > > the 60 character in the >subject line?
> > > >
> > > > Interesting that - it does some other weird stuff, but not noticed
> that.
> > > > Is this on all my messages to this list, or have you noticed it
> > > > elsewhere?
> > >
> > > I know it happens with the exchange servers at work so suspect it's just
> > > a general quirk.  I just find it a little irritating as it messes up the
> > > subject line (as it's doing with this email!), seems to be removing
> > > spaces as well :-/ Odd!
> > >
> > > >  We use a pritty much default config with SP1.  The reason we
> > > > use it here is that we have several plugins for clergy use - i.e,
> > > > timetraq which is a calendar plug-in which takes account of shared
> > > > clergy time on specific set periods, and also church events, and
> another
> > > > plugin for list/roter generations etc.
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> > > Web: http://www.wetlettuce.com/
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