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
