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From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: inactivity timeout for pppd
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:54:52 GMT
Organization: Vault Information Services
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We've recently started to switch our users to PPP from SLIP. We had
modified sliplogin to add an inactivity disconnect based on an amount
in the slip.hosts file. To do this, we just captured the idle time
displayed in finger. The problem is that this method will not work
with pppd. Is there another way to have some type of idle timeout
while using pppd?
Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr. | tjacobs@vaultbbs.com
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Sleep \'slep\ n 1 : A completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.