[plug] PPP idle timeout problem

[Andrew Howell]

On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 02:14:55PM +0000, Colin 't Hart wrote:
> Andrew Howell wrote:
> > Leaving Debug turned on (as I noticed you say in a later message you did
> > find it turned on :)) do the logs say anything when you are disconnected?
> 
> Heh... I've already turned debug off, but there's plenty of saved stuff
> in /var/log/ppp*:
> 
> Dec  1 16:44:17 penguin pppd[24252]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x28
> magic=0x159f]
> Dec  1 16:44:17 penguin pppd[24252]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x28
> magic=0xce59a5b0]
> Dec  1 16:44:28 penguin pppd[24252]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1 03]
> Dec  1 16:44:28 penguin pppd[24252]: LCP terminated by peer (^C)
> Dec  1 16:44:28 penguin pppd[24252]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1]     
> Dec  1 16:44:29 penguin pppd[24252]: Hangup (SIGHUP)     
> Dec  1 16:44:29 penguin pppd[24252]: Modem hangup                 
> Dec  1 16:44:29 penguin pppd[24252]: Connection
> terminated.                     
> Dec  1 16:44:30 penguin pppd[24252]: Exit.
> 
> 
> So that's after about 20 minutes.
> Does the LCP terminated by peer (^C) mean that the other end terminated
> the connection?

I believe so... see this line

> Dec  1 16:44:28 penguin pppd[24252]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x1 03]

I interpret that as 'receieved LCP termination request'

So it sounds like the other end is the one that is kicking you off.
I'm not PPP expect though :)

You sure your windows client isn't doing some traffic to stay up?

Andrew

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Andrew Howell
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