From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 14:20:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1D315441 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (root@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13278; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:20:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01046; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from myself) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: Richard Morte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disconnect delay with ppp -auto Message-ID: <19990926172036.B974@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <37EE8A80.C19D8591@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <37EE8A80.C19D8591@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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