On Jul 10,  9:48am, fredb@immanent.net (Frederick Bruckman) wrote:
-- Subject: "pppd" should unset connect-time timer on disconnect

Yup, go ahead and add it.

thanks,

christos

| Hi,
| 
| The following (or something like it) is needed to prevent "random"
| disconnects when using both "demand" and "max-connect NNN". [Many
| ISP's now require/enforce max-connect, unless you pay extra for a
| dedicated line.] The disconnects aren't really random; rather, they're
| "max-connect" time since some previous connect, but really, only the
| latest disconnect timer should count. I've been running with this for
| a long time on NetBSD 1.5.2, and I've just merged to the head and
| verified that it still builds. Is it OK if I commit?
| 
| Index: auth.c
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd/auth.c,v
| retrieving revision 1.29
| diff -c -r1.29 auth.c
| *** auth.c	2002/07/01 22:19:30	1.29
| --- auth.c	2002/07/10 14:15:09
| ***************
| *** 762,767 ****
| --- 762,768 ----
|   {
|       if (--num_np_up == 0) {
|   	UNTIMEOUT(check_idle, NULL);
| + 	UNTIMEOUT(connect_time_expired, NULL);
|   	new_phase(PHASE_NETWORK);
|       }
|   }
| 
| Frederick
-- End of excerpt from Frederick Bruckman