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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pppd process won't die when modem hangs up Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:39:16 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3241A164.1521@www.play-hookey.com> References: <51rp80$o2@BLaCKSMITH.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Kevin Swanson wrote: > > I have a dialup server running FreeBSD 2.1-stable and kernel ppp. > > I am having the following problem on the server side: > > Sometimes the pppd process will keep running even though the modem on the > server has hung up on the dialed-in user. Is there some ppp setting for > making sure that if the modem disconnects the pppd process should then go > away? > What do you have as a 'disconnect' option in /etc/ppp/options ? That script should be able to force a 'kill' of pppd if necessary. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |