Mike Jagdis wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Brett Wallace wrote:
>
> > In the man page this is described as the timeout used to drop the link,
> > if no packets have crossed the link.
> >
> > Though it seems what this timeout REALLY does, is times out if a packet
> > in not received from the remote peer. As in my case this timeout will
> > expire if diald dials up the remote peer, sends all its packets that are
> > buffered, hence packets actually cross the link but only in one
> > direction.
>
> Ah, are you *sure* the buffered packets actually cross the
> link? If you are running "dynamic" or "sticky" then you are
> probably getting bitten by the "buffered packets disappear
> into a black hole" bug :-).
>
> Mike
>
Yes I am running "dynamic" not sure about sticky, but the packets actually get
through (version 0.16.5) but the bug you mentioned appears to be in 0.99.1,
not 0.16.5.
Tell me more about the bug??? Is it fixable and only confined to the 0.99.1
version?
Brett
>
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