Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: Richard Morte <richard@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disconnect delay with ppp -auto Message-ID: <19990926172036.B974@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <37EE8A80.C19D8591@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> References: <37EE8A80.C19D8591@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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You can use /usr/sbin/pppctl for this purpose... On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 10:05:04PM +0100, Richard Morte wrote: > Hi, > > When using ppp in -auto mode the socket receives the request (for > example from Netscape) and dials out OK. > > When closing Netscape the connection to the ISP remains open until the > timeout interval is reached. Has anyone discovered an automatic way to > force a disconnection as soon as an application closes without having to > issue command line prompts to ppp? I don't wan't to reduce the timeout > below the current 5 minutes otherwise I get disconnected in the middle > of browsing. > > Thanks > > Richard Morte > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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