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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: PPP disconect after a period of time Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 22:10:15 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4pa9e2$kbe@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <4p7jej$701@mikasa.iol.it> <4p86hs$3b4_002@news.livenet.net> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts03c26.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) wrote: >In article <4p7jej$701@mikasa.iol.it>, luba@tikal.net.gt (Luis F. Barrera) wrote: >>Hi everyone, >> >>i'd like to know , if there is a way to disconnect someone if he/she >>has not used the PPP link after, let's say 30 minutes. I got >>the message PPP stalled, I guess that means that user did not use the >>link for a very long period of time. >> >> >there are 2 ways, pppconfig and setting an idletime in your /etc/ppp.sys, man >pppconfig and man ppp.sys Thanks for the information Jim, sure the heck saved me a LOT of time. Lance