[Wylug-help] PPP and multicast preventing timeout

[MatthewJohnPalmermjp16@uow.edu.au]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Caroline Harris wrote:

[Argh! Long line disease!  Make it stop!  Make it stop!  <sob>]

> I have set up ppp to dial on demand to uklinux as my ISP. However if I set
> idle to >110 then pppd wont drop the line. Tcpdump on ppp0 shows incoming
> igmp packets about every 2 mins. I have found out that this is to do with
> multicasting but is there anyway to stop these packets and allow a longer
> idle time.

Tell your ISP to stop playing silly buggers?  Alternately, use diald (if you
aren't already) and tell it to ignore IGMP packets for the purposes of link
activation.

It's possible you're asking for these PGMP packets somehow.  Check to see if
you're running anything like routed or similar.


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Matthew Palmer
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