The current release supports multiple PPP sessions per PVC. The PPP configuration in the WAN configuration page is for the first PPP session for each PVC. The predefined PPP Account Name (Account ID) is “Simple PPP Account 0” for PVC0 and predefined PPP Connection Name is “Simple PPP Session 0” for PVC0. For the other PVC X, the predefined account name and connection name will be Simple PPP Account X and Simple PPP Session X. X is the PVC number from 1 to 7.
It can support up to total of 16 PPP sessions, and each PVC can support up to 8 PPP sessions. The multiple PPP sessions may be configured with any combination over 8 PVCs.
For the multiple PPP sessions, please go to PPP Configuration page (Section 6.3).
The service name of PPP is required by some ISPs. If the ISP does not provide the Service Name, please leave it blank.
The Disconnect Timeout allows the user to set the specific period of time to disconnect from the ISP. The default is 0, which means never disconnect from the ISP.
Maximum Receive Unit indicates the peer of PPP connection the maximum size of the PPP information field this device can be received. The default value is 1492 and is used in the beginning of the PPP negotiation. In the normal negotiation, the peer will accept this MRU and will not send packet with information field larger than this value.
Maximum Transmission Unit indicates the network stack of any packet is larger than this value will be fragmented before the transmission. During the PPP negotiation, the peer of the PPP connection will indicates its MRU and will be accepted. The actual MTU of the PPP connection will be set to the smaller one of MTU and the peer’s MRU. The default is value 1492.
Maximum Segment Size is the largest size of data that TCP will send in a single IP packet. When a connection is established between a LAN client and a host in the WAN side, the LAN client and the WAN host will indicate their MSS during the TCP connection handshake. The default value is 1432.
