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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
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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
> 
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