I belived this is the solution for Caldera's dial out ;) > > > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Anthony Good wrote: > > I'd like to setup my RedHat 5.1 machine so that when an application needs to > > access the 'net, ppp will automatically be started up. After a period of > > inactivity (no network activity), say 10 minutes, I'd like ppp to > > automatically disconnect. Is there a way to do this ? > > pppd 2.3 supports ppp 'dial on demand'. > when specified as an option, 'demand' causes the > modem to dial on detecting outgoing packets. the > 'idle' option takes the link down if inactive > for n seconds. > > > > > ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/linux-newbie/?start=6965
