[Sussex] DSL Timeout problem

[Neil Ford]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 10:52  am, John Crowhurst wrote:

> I've just looked through the config and found:
>
> ip ipatm lifetime 60
>
> This is scary, what it says in the help that the ATM connection will 
> drop
> in 60 seconds if the line is idle. 60 seconds is a short time frame, 
> which
> I've set to 84600 or 1 day :P
>
> Lets see if that fixes the random line drop problem.
>
> --
> John
>
We discussed this very subject last night. Seems it's a common setting 
on Alcatel kit.

So yes, you may find changing it solves your problems.

Neil.