On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically > disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time > (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various > Internet configuration files, I can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection > appears to only to be able to be done manually. > > If our dial-up connections could be set to be automatically terminated, it > would be a help. It would mean that we could leave the computer downloading > something, knowing that the connection would be terminated a few minutes > after the download had finished, rather than having to watch for the > download to finish. > > Any ideas, please, anyone? > > Many thanks > > Keith
is this for everone using the dialup connection? if so,,, add (to the file /ect/ppp/options) the line (without the quotes, as root) "IDLE=300" will give you a 5 min idle time before disconnection. also the command "man pppd" can be your friend too... -- linux counter #167806
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