On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:40, Jose Victor A. Martin, Jr. wrote:
> But now it won't hang up the line!  I'm suspecting that all these new
> internet worms are the culprit in that they (or their owners or their
> websites or whatever) keep TRYING to send packets to the gateway computer
> from the internet so that the there is ACTIVITY always and so the IDLE
> TIMEOUT expires and resets every time there is an incoming packet!  Is my
> assumption correct?  Does the idle timeout monitor the incoming data along
> with the outgoing?  Can anyone please explain to me what kinds of packets
> (and from where)  reset the IDLE TIMEOUT counter?

is it just some users, or all users?  if you create a new user, then dialup
as that user, and don't send anything down that line, do you timeout?

if you *don't* timeout, then you could sniff just that session (i like
ethereal, but tcpdump is good too) and see what, if anything, is
going down that ppp connection.

tiger

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