On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:01:37PM +0200, Paul Herman wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for your investigation. I'll try to convince
> > my ISP that the LCP ECHO_REQUESTs are not necessary.
> 
> Sorry to step in late on this thread, but there are indeed patches on
> the freebsd-isdn mailing list by myself and improved by Gary Jennejohn
> which correct this.
> 
> I also personaly believe that LCP ECHO_REQUESTS are not the most
> useful thing on the planet, but being a standard, it is your ISPs
> perogative to use them, and it is the client's job to support them.

Well, they *are* supported -- at least, a correct reply is
generated for each request. The problem is/was that both
the request and the reply seem to count as traffic...

    Ingolf
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