Re: pppd: LCP terminated by peer

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:

> Hello, John!
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:10:23PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > > I'm using pppd 2.4.2 to connect to my DSL Internet provider. After a
> > > period of inactivity pppd terminates the connection with a message "LCP
> > > terminated by peer". Can I instruct pppd not to agree to that?
> > >      
> > No.
> >
> > Talk to your ISP.
> >    
>
> Thanks for the prompt answer! I assume this is a feature of LCP and one
> can't "fix" it in pppd, no?
>  

It's not broken, this is how to terminate the connexion.

> Seems that creating some activity from cron is cheaper than talking to
> the ISP :) 
>
>  
If the ISP knows a problem exists, then the problem can be fixed for 
everyone.


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Cheers
John

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