On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:20:38AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> >I get my mail several times a day using crontab to dial in
> >I need to terminate the connection when there is no more activity
> >on the ppp link sometimes it is 3 Min sometimes it is 30 Min.
> Do a 'man pppd' and look at the options. Recent pppd's (like I was looking
> at the stock 6.1 pppd last night) have an 'idle' option. Also a 'demand'
> option which might mean that you could discard any complicated scripts in
> favor of just running pppd which will wait for traffic to the outside
> world, connect, and then idle out. At least that's what I'm going to try
> tonight.
Thanks Alan
I used the option
idle 25
in my /etc/ppp/options file and it closed in 25 sec.
Jacob
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