Re: pppd: LCP terminated by peer

[jakob bratkovic <jakob.bratkovic@volja.net>]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.
You could try adding a line such as:

lcp-echo-interval 60

to your /etc/ppp/options. Perhaps it will help.

Jakob