Clifford wrote:
> I've got wvdial working with the new firewall ruleset. Only one
> problem remains, the link is'nt going down after the number of idle
> minutes has passed. There seems to be something keeping the link alive
> and this is what i get from the messages log
>
>
>> Jan 16 13:58:34 Spidey pppd[2397]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6 magic=0x244fd753]
>> Jan 16 13:58:34 Spidey pppd[2397]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6 magic=0xf894d629]
>> Jan 16 13:59:04 Spidey pppd[2397]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7 magic=0x244fd753]
>> Jan 16 13:59:04 Spidey pppd[2397]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x7 magic=0xf894d629]
>> Jan 16 13:59:34 Spidey pppd[2397]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x8 magic=0x244fd753]
>>
>
> As you can see they clearly occur every 30 seconds and i'm assuming
> this is what's keeping the link from dieing as it's never idle for
> more than 30 seconds.
> Can anybody please point me in the right direction to solving this
> problem?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Clifford
> --
Clifford,
Try tcpdump -i ppp0 to get a look at the packets traversing your ppp connection. One
thing that happens in 30 second intervals is RIP.
No one should be sending RIP data to you and unlsess your are running routed, you
should not be sending any.
Bob...
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