Many thanks to all who looked at my query - I think I have to put it down to
experience and perhaps invoke some additional scripts to provide additional
'killing power' over just diald ! I shall upgrade to 0.99 at the same time.
The point to note is that I'm pretty sure there weren't any packets keeping
the link up - there were no client machines switched on. The thing that
pointed me to a major hiccup was that sl0 wasn't running - sl1 was ??? The
system behaved as if it were 'locked up' in that issuing a 'down' ( I use
dialmon on a W95 box to monitor the link), caused the line to go down but it
came straight back up again. I even used tcpdump and saw nothing other than
my servers initial packets ( sendmail -q is invoked, together with time sync
info).
I was rushing to get out of the office quickly and had no more time to
investigate so had to hit the panic button and everything appeared OK after
that. I am trying to remember to hit 'block' whenever I am finished with
the connection until I have a little time to make the whole setup more
secure.
I might have to put it down to a random memory fault that will be
un-reproducable - strange that even stopping and restarting diald didn't fix
it - sl1 was still there instead of sl0 ???
I hate throwing my hard earned $$'s down the drain though - roll on ADSL in
my area ( at a reasonable price !).
Thanks to all again - regards - George.
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