Re: (PM) Disconnect problems
Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
2 Feb 1998 18:59:04 GMT
According to Russell Heilling <russellh@netdirect.net.uk>:
>I seem to remember that there used to be a problem that only
>traffic _into_ the portmaster was resetting the idle counter, so
>if a user was sat downloading a large file (all traffic going out of
>the portmaster) they would get disconnected after the idle
>timeout, whereas if they were web browsing, with traffic going
>in both directions they would stay on fine.
>
>Can anyone confirm whether this has been fixed yet?
I don't know if it has been fixed or not, but it wouldn't affect almost
any PPP connections, since all TCP packets get an ACK going back the
other way. So doing a long FTP download should NOT idle out.
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Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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