Always-on networking via GPRS

Tim Newsom cephdon at gmail.com
Tue May 1 19:55:45 CEST 2007


On Tue, 1 May 2007 10:03, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
/snip
> Hmmh, okay. But, since GPRS is really blocked for the duration of the
> call, doesn't that mean that the local PPP client will not get replies
> to LCP echo packets? So atleast the local ppp must be configured to
> never disconnect the call on LCP echo failures. What about the remote
> side? Surely there must be some time after which the remote ppp will
> disconnect your client for not answering to anything - or is there?
/snip
> -- Naked

My understanding, and someone please correct me if I am wrong, is that 
the gprs and gsm functions will be multiplexed by code written by 
Heralde. So it should be possible to use gprs and make a call over gsm 
at the same time.
--Tim



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