From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 16:09:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA04768 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:09:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from wsantee.oz.net (wsantee.oz.net [204.118.240.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA04763 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:09:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wsantee@localhost) by wsantee.oz.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA05357; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:07:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199602160007.QAA05357@wsantee.oz.net> Subject: Re: Telling if User PPP is up or down To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:07:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Wes Santee" Cc: jerry@border.com, terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602152112.OAA03021@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 15, 96 02:12:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert sez: > > > Call me bind, BUT, How is this going to tell if the dial-on-demand > > feature has the line currently in use. > > replace "ppp" with the name of the program that is running the link. > > If the program that is there when the link is there is present, then > the link is up. With the user-process PPP daemon, however, the program can still be in memory even if the link is off-line. It sits there waiting for outbound traffic to be generated in which case, it brings up the link again. IOW, there is never going to be a time when the program that is running the link isn't going to be in the 'ps' listings, even if the link is currently off-line. Thanks for trying to help out, though. I (and some others who have e-mailed me privately), am still looking for answers if you've got 'em! Cheers, -- ( -Wes Santee | ) ( (backup) | No one told you when to run... ) ( http://www.oz.net/~wsantee \------------------------------- ) ( finger for PGP info Powered by FreeBSD )