Richard Morin writes: > Hi Folks, > Does anyone know what the "forcing timeout" box means in dctrl? dctrl > doesn't run every time, but when it does, it has a countdown going on in > the "forcing timeout" box. To me, this means it is forcing the link down, > but how do I stop it from doing this? > I don't think it means that. For me, it couuts down from 23:xx:xx, and never seems to have any affect.
As far as I can tell, and in my expeirience, It is *not* forcing the link down, and I strongly suggest you *don't do anything about it*!!! I checked the documentation, but couldn't find out what it is meant for. I checked the code and still wasn't much the wiser! I guessed it might have something to do with the "restrict" fields whereby you can have different rules at different times of the day, so I addded one but id didn't seem to change things. (diald is a neat program which "dials on demand", bringing up a link to the outside world when there is traffic for it. Very nice if you're being charged for online time!) Richard
