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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: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:33:58 GMT
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On 24 Apr 1997 15:30:16 GMT, brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote:
> > 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 ?
This _IS_ an (almost) local call. NTT ain't cheap.
> 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
Thanks. As nasty as it is, this is what I set up as a cron job that very
day.
Kurt
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