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From: Kurt@pinboard.com (Kurt Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to keep ISP from killing ppp connection
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:04:39 GMT
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> In article <335CC5C4.FDEFA390@cabl.com>,
> Rick Goldeck <webmaster@cabl.com> writes:
> > I'm paying for a dedicated dialup line from my ISP, but
> > they timeout ALL accounts after 15 mins. of inactivity.
We should change our setups. I use ppp+packetAlias 1.9. Cron jobs dial
out for e-mail and other stuff once late at night and once early in the
morning. But sometimes it happens that the timeout does not work and the
connection is not ended. Happened again today and by the time I noticed,
I had already lost about US$ 100 in telephone charges. :-(
Does anybody know a _reliable_ way to terminate a connection (sometimes
telnetting into ppp and issuing a 'close' does not even help).
Kurt
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