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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, homey wrote:

> where can I adjusted the idle timeout on a modem or pppd?
> thanks in advance.
> 

SHould be in your ppp.conf file. I have mine under a label as set timeout 
300

So after 5 mins of nothing over the ppp link it hangs up.