Bubba Smith
Premier Internet Services
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> From: Douglas Warren <dwarren@alpha.NetUSA.Net>
> To: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: auto reconnect (fwd)
> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 1997 8:42 PM
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, MegaZone wrote:
> > Once upon a time Bubba Smith shaped the electrons to say...
> > >I have a Livingston OR-U customer who has set his idle tiimeout low(2
> > >minutes) in order to save money on his ISDN usage bill. However, when
it
> > >disconnects him for idletimeout, it automatically reconnects him. What
> > >should he do on his end to make it not auto-reconnect. Or maybe, what
> > It is his end - and it could be any number of mistakes that bring the
> > link back up. There is no one way to stop this - all of the settings
need
> > to be right.
> > Make sure he isn't syslogging across the link. Make sure he doesn't
have
> > any ports with PortMaster mode AT ALL. Make sure the location is on
demand.
> > I'm sure there are other things.
>
> >From what I've seen the biggest cause is having routing set to broadcast
> on the port, I don't know if it's the default or not but I've seen that
> happen several times. Standard thing now is to turn off routing on both
> serial ports.
>
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