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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!tubsibr!rznb12.rz.tu-bs.de!y0001415 From: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Killing Idling SLIP sessions Date: 24 Nov 1995 17:11:12 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <494ubg$566@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <492q06$9ln@nic.wat.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rznb12.rz.tu-bs.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thomas Schroecker (thomas@canadian-agra.com) wrote: : Any quick way to kill people who establish a slip session, and then not : do anything. The only way I can tell that tehir idling is that when I : type netstat -i, and number of in packets, and number of outpackets don't : change for a while. So is there a way to see the traffic throught the : slip port, and kill the session if there isn't any for a specified amount : of time?!? : Thanks in advance. : TS. In (iij)ppp there is an idle timer that hangs up the line after a specified time of silence on the line. If you have to use slip, maybe you can configure the modem appropriately. Some of them have idle timers. hope this helps -- Martin Butkus >>> Live long and prosper. <<< Phone/Fax: +49.5331.298710 Am Stadtwege 10, 38304 Wolfenbuettel, Germany