From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 06:40:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 06:40:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05791 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 06:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #3) id 0zk7EX-0003rX-00; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:49:53 +0000 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:49:52 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Karl Pielorz Cc: Daniel Haischt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple linkdown script Message-ID: <19981129134952.A6428@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3661370D.41C67EA6@privat.toplink.de> <366137FD.A8BCB4D7@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <366137FD.A8BCB4D7@tdx.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, I don't know too much about ppp - but isn't that script called after the > link has been taken 'down', i.e. /var/run/tun0.pid is going to be non existant > / emtpy? No, at least, I don't think so. PPP still has the tun device active even when the link is down. (This is why I can still connect to my IP address, 212.228.14.13, when not connected to the internet.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message