James or others, Is there a documentation explaining what each ppp option stands for options file, I do understand some but others I want to know in detail eg: plugin pppoe.so eth1 nodetach nodefaultroute persist maxfail 0 noauth user ashmat nopcomp lcp-max-failure 5 lcp-max-configure 10 lcp-max-terminate 2 lcp-restart 3 lcp-echo-failure 3 lcp-echo-interval 10 mru 1492 thanks On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Ashmath Khan <hashmat.email@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok. > Its a requirement from my customer which I need to implement ! > My customer doesn't want normal retries but want this to be tried. As > simple as that. > In addtion:and after m retries, I would want to switch to some default > credentials and continue the retries. > Does this explain ? > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, James Carlson <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ashmath Khan wrote: >>> Thanks James for long explanation. >>> >>> Let me explain. I am actually looking for a different retry mechanism >>> for failures. My retry interval would vary depending on the number of >>> retries. To given an example: >>> nth retry is to be attempted at (n - 1)3 x 10 secs after previous attempt >> >> Why? You still haven't explained what you're doing. >> >> What problem are you attempting to solve? Can you give us any hints at all? >> >>> So the retry interval is not constant but derived from a formula. >>> >>> Are such things possible without modifying the code ? >> >> No. See pppd/fsm.c, f->timeouttime, and the TIMEOUT() macro. >> >> -- >> James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
