ADTRAN TA 544 User Manual

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TA 544 User Manual © 2001, ADTRAN, Inc.TA 544 User Manual/61200704L1-1APage 38 of 68PPPUse this menu to configure PPP settings.D IRECTION Allows the direction at which RIP advertise-ments are sent and listened to be specified.TX AND RX (def) RIP advertisements are periodicallytransmitted and are listened to on this port.TX ONLY RIP advertisements are periodicallytransmitted but are not listened to on thisport.RX O NLY RIP advertisements are not transmitted onthis port, but are listened.TRIGGERED When set to YES, only IP RIP updates are sentwhen the routing table has changed and learnedroutes not “aged.” When set to No (def), updatesare sent periodically.R ETAIN When this Connection List entry is disconnectedand this parameter is set to YES, all routeslearned from this WAN connection are retainedand their routing interface is set to idle. This per-mits dial-on-demand to occur using this profilefor any IP network that might have been adver-tised by the particular PPP peer. The idle routescan be flushed or “zombied” from the routing ta-ble if a manual hangup is performed when thisWAN connection is not active. When this Con-nection List entry is disconnected and this pa-rameter is set to NO (def), routes learned fromthis session are “zombied” and are not retained.VJ C OMPRESSION When this item is set to O N, the TA 544 will per-form TCP/IP header compression known as VanJacobson compression to the PPP peer. Normal-ly, this is not necessary over ISDN connectionsand can be set to Off (def) to disable it.MAX C ONFIGURE This value is the number of unanswered config-uration-requests that should be transmitted be-fore giving up on a call. The possible values are5, 10 (def), 15 and 20.MAX TIMER This value is the number of seconds to wait be-tween unanswered configuration-requests. Thepossible values are 1 sec, 2 secs (def), 3 secs, 5secs and 10 secs.