From owner-freebsd-isdn Sat Feb 13 04:41:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03692 for freebsd-isdn-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03682 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grossjoh@ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id NAA19366; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:41:28 +0100 (MET) Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id NAA29690; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:41:26 +0100 To: Gary Jennejohn Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current, dial-on-demand, hang up the phone? References: <199902112213.XAA01685@peedub.muc.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Date: 13 Feb 1999 13:41:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn's message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:13:43 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070076 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.76) Emacs/20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Jennejohn writes: > use the menu in isdnd. Read the man page. Thanks for the suggestion. However, I'm not really satisfied with this solution and I'm looking for a command to be used from the command line. Here's why: I use my connection for two different things. One is interactive sessions, and the other is batch transfer of files. When in an interactive session, I don't want the connection to drop after a short idle time because I have found out that I fairly often just stare at the screen reading what's on it without any traffic on the connection. I think an idle time of 5 or 10 minutes would be good. On the other hand, when doing batch transfers, it makes sense to hang up the phone immediately after the transfer is finished -- no sense in giving money to Deutsche Telekom. I read the following man pages: isdnd, isdnd.rc, ifconfig, spppconfig. I couldn't find anything about dialing or hanging up the phone in dial-on-demand mode. The closest I could find was spppconfig telling me about the `phase' of the connection, but it turns out that spppconfig doesn't accept a `phase=dead' parameter, and the `phase' keyword in ifconfig is for AppleTalk. I'd appreciate any suggestions you might have. kai -- I like _b_o_t_h kinds of music. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message