Re: (PM) Re: Dial-on-demand filters & bring-up (and undocumented commands) (fwd)

Russ Taylor (rtaylor@cmc.net)
Tue, 5 May 1998 21:38:28 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 5 May 1998, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Steven Freed shaped the electrons to say...
> >Does anyone at Livingston care to comment on this?
>
> Ah, someone finally found 'dfilter'...
>
> Hidden feature. Since the other half, an idle filter, was never
> implemented it wasn't published. Since this stops traffic from bringing
> a link up, but not from *keeping* it up, it was considered half a
> solution. And the demand has really been for an idle filter - which I
> quite agree with BTW.
>

Those of us with one-way cable modems would _love_ a way to make the idle
timer recognize user -> pm traffic, as well.

(We've had to disable the idle timer for all cable modem users, as the PM
thinks they never do anything :)

Russ Taylor (rtaylor@cmc.net, http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor)
Chambers Multimedia Connection Help Desk
"Hoody hoo! How many hedge-ogres did I get?" -- Knights of the Dinner Table

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