[ale] PPP Question?? 'renew' message?

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

I do not think there is a think as a renew option in pppd.  The
lcp-echo-interval is to be used on problem connections and connections
in which you may be disconnected.   It may or may not work in this
case.  There is only one way to know.....

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:11, John Mills wrote:
> Mike and Christopher -
> 
> Thanks for the inputs.
> 
> If I understood Christopher's man page, the 'kick-out' would arise from 
> our client not responding to a peer inquiry. That may be the direction the 
> transaction works, but I was told that _our_client_ should request a link 
> renewal, not that we should respond to a peer request confirming our 
> presence.
> 
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Mike Harrison wrote:
> 
> > > includes the link's current assigned IP instead of a place-holder used in
> > > the "request" packet. The 'kick-out' interval seems to be about half an 
> > > hour.
> > 
> > Depending on what radius server and config your ISP is using, 
> > it may not matter, if they are 'kicking' you every 30 minutes
> > no matter what your activity/packet xfer at the moment is, 
> > it's because they are freeing up phone lines.. 
> 
> I think it's a case of over-design rather than economizing. Most of the 
> clients on this net are supposed to be semi-permanent.
> 
> We respawn our 'ppp' script when the link drops and thereby exits 'ppp'. 
> This works but has the side-effect of sometimes changing our network IP, 
> which can be inconvenient. 
> 
> Presumably others have solved this problem, but so far we've come up dry 
> at finding more information.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
> 
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