Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings

gary (gmckinney@megabits.net)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:34:39 -0500

Doesn't the SessionTimout setting in Radius work?? <seems to for our site -
of course we are running PM2 units with ComOS 3.5 code>..

gm...

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> From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
> To: Greg McKenzie <greg@access.aic-fl.com>
> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 9:09 AM
>
>
> We're still looking for such an option in ComOS - it would be a
lifesaver.
>
> And I'd rather not have something monitor byte/time ratios.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 05:56:30AM -0600, Greg McKenzie wrote:
>
> > Has anyone figured out how to filter out the pings from mail clients.
We
> > have at terrible situation here where our dialups are basically putting
> > themselves on life support (connection to Internet) once they dialup.
> > Seriously we have login that last 23 hrs until we disconnect them. They
are
> > using their mail client to check their mail every x minutes. We have
played
> > with the idletimer over and over, but no luck. So we would like to see
if
> > we can filter the call to the mail server port, and NOT have it reset
the
> > idle timer.
>
>
> --
> - Steve
> - Systems Manager
> - Community Internet Access, Inc.
> - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico
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