On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:16:10 -0500, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had two problems with ppp while trying to make the idle timeout only > count outbound packets. I forgot system configuration details. I am running fc2, with ppp 2.4.2-2 and development kernel 2.6.7-1.471. > > The first is that when I run pppd with an 'outbound' filter I get the > error message: > pppd: error in active-filter expression: inbound/outbound not supported on linktype 0 > > This makes it seem like it is checking the link type before the link is > set up and so it 'outbound' isn't a valid filter rule because it is only > valid for ppp and slip links. > > The second problem was that I was using the options tab of the network > configuration tool to add the option (as opposed to editing the appropiate > config file directly) and I found that when I deleted the option (so > that I could activate my ppp link) it didn't remove the option from the > config file. I had to go in and manually remove it from the config file. > > There is probably a way to make another test that will work, but since > my ip address is dynamic it isn't obvious. > > Without an active-filter the idle timeout feature is useless since my > system gets probed much more frequently than what I want to use for a timeout.
