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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to keep ISP from killing ppp connection
Date: 24 Apr 1997 15:30:16 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <335e4d9a.2938981@202.243.48.5>,
Kurt@pinboard.com (Kurt Keller) writes:
>> 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. :-(
Now that's what I call an expensive call. Havn't you got a local ISP ?
> Does anybody know a _reliable_ way to terminate a connection (sometimes
> telnetting into ppp and issuing a 'close' does not even help).
ppp is more stable in 2.2 than it was before. It should *NEVER*
"miss" the timeout or fail to accept a "close". The only times
I've seen these behaviours is when it's "jammed" - pre 2.2. When
it's jammed, you can't telnet to 3000, and the program gobbles
up cpu time like there's no tomorrow. I havn't heard of any
occurences like this on 2.2.1-RELEASE or after.
You can always resort to "kill -9" if you have to run the older
version. This should cause loss of DTR and make your modem
disconnect. It's a bit harsh, but it's the only thing that'll
stop that nasty "spin".
> Kurt
> --
> Kurt@pinboard.com http://www.pinboard.com/ business
> http://www.pinboard.com/kurt/ private
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !