[163229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why does dail-up or pppoe access always has
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Zekelman)
Thu May 30 11:30:08 2013
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:16:09 -0400
To: Joe <sj_hznm@hotmail.com>,NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Clayton Zekelman <clayton@MNSi.Net>
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The simple answer is that it does not.
If you don't specify a session timeout, the session will not timeout.
This is how we run our PPPoE services.
The protocol and BAS designer does not set the parameter - the
network operator does.
At 05:10 AM 30/05/2013, Joe wrote:
>hi.
> a question obsessed me for a long time. "why my pppoe
> connection to internet has a max session time, even if every thing goes ok? "
> In our DSL access network , max session timeout is set to 4 days,
> this parameter is sent to BAS by radius server after finishing
> authenticating procedure. As I know, beside us some other
> service providers also applied this parameter to pppoe session, the
> parameter varies from 48 hours to 96 hours. Reading documents
> of BAS, we found this is default value for session-time on BAS,
> that means even if radius server does not response BAS
> with session-timeout attribute BAS will cut pppoe session after
> sometime. so , why does those BAS designer or protocol
> designer set such a parameter for pppoe access ?
>should anyone do me a favor on explaining this ?
>regards
>Joe
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