The simple answer is that it does not.
If you don't specify a session timeout, the session will not timeout.
This is how we run our PPPoE services.
The protocol and BAS designer does not set the parameter - the
network operator does.
At 05:10 AM 30/05/2013, Joe wrote:
hi.
a question obsessed me for a long time. "why my pppoe
connection to internet has a max session time, even if every thing goes ok? "
In our DSL access network , max session timeout is set to 4 days,
this parameter is sent to BAS by radius server after finishing
authenticating procedure. As I know, beside us some other
service providers also applied this parameter to pppoe session, the
parameter varies from 48 hours to 96 hours. Reading documents
of BAS, we found this is default value for session-time on BAS,
that means even if radius server does not response BAS
with session-timeout attribute BAS will cut pppoe session after
sometime. so , why does those BAS designer or protocol
designer set such a parameter for pppoe access ?
should anyone do me a favor on explaining this ?
regards
Joe
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