On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 2:09 pm, et wrote: > 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. > > > > 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...
Many thanks for your reply and the information. There's only one user here - me! I have activated the "idle" line in the /etc/ppp/options file as you suggested. It works. At the moment I am using your suggestion, but I have installed WVDial (which has an "idle time" setting) and am also trying that program. I had not noticed that /etc/ppp/options was the file to edit. I must have missed it when first checking through the Internet configuration files. Next job is to read the ppd manual. Many thanks again. Keith
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