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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!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!winternet.com!n1ott.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!infoshare!whome!light-house!abyss!news2.compulink.com!news3.idirect.com!derek Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc From: derek@idirect.com (Derek Snider) Subject: Re: PPP disconect after a period of time X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Newsmaster: Laszlo Herczeg (las@idirect.com) X-Client-Port: 1121 Message-ID: <Edina1996Jun10.155016.32660@news3.compulink.com> References: <4p7jej$701@mikasa.iol.it> <4p86hs$3b4_002@news.livenet.net> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: l2.idirect.com Date: 10 Jun 96 19:50:16 UTC Lines: 28 Jim Sloan (jsloan@LiveNet.Net) 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 The "id=", section of the ppp.sys file doesn't seem to work, (at least in BSDI 2.0.1), and neither does setting idletime with pppconfig. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Derek B. Snider derek@idirect.com _/ telnet://realms.game.org:4000 _/ Senior Programmer / System Administrator _/ telnet://telecafe.com:9000 _/ ComputerLink Online Inc. _/ http://www.idirect.com _/ 5150 Dundas St. W. Suite #306 _/ http://pizza.idirect.com _/ Etobicoke, ON, M9A 1C3, Canada _/ http://www.game.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- : Stop on by the Internet TeleCafe! telnet://telecafe.com:9000 : ----------------------------------------------------------------