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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
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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

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