Re: auto reconnect (fwd)
John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 05:55:17 -0700
At 08:42 PM 7/23/97 -0400, Douglas Warren wrote:
>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.
As a rule the PortMaster's idle timer is not reset by RIP (UDP/520). You
may want to packet filter a bit more to see if there are any other stray
packets or give support a call.
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