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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: iij-ppp auto-dial question
Date: 2 Nov 1996 23:53:37 -0000
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In article <3275B954.41C67EA6@qlink.queensu.ca>,
Jake <3rlk1@qlink.queensu.ca> writes:
: Hi, I have iij-ppp setup to autodial on my system, but it is a pain to
: logoff of my ISP. I have a little shell script that starts ppp -auto,
: then starts ping which causes ppp to dial in. However, when I want to
: logoff I have to telnet to 127.0.0.1 3000 as root, type close, then quit
: all. How can I automate this? Maybe with a shell script? Right now I
: just ahve a ppp option in my ctwm menu, that starts ppp, and starts
: pinging, I know ehn I am logged in because the pings starts getting
: through. I would like to have another option like pppdown, that logs me
: off automagically. Is this possible? Is there any harm ion just
: letting it time out? I'm on for free through the university so time is
: not a factor.
I have a program called tcpchat - it "chat"s to a tcp port. It's good
for doing things like writing a "connect nnn" script where nnn is the
ppp timeout - the script says:
#! /bin/sh
val=$1
test -z "$val" && val=300
tcpchat -v localhost ppp "> " "set timeout $val" "> " "show timeout" "> " quit
ping -c1 demon-du </dev/null >&0 2>&0 &
Have a look on my web page below.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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