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Re: pppd autodial: missing auto hangup



Hi,

why not simply use diald ?
As Erez said (and I agree) diald hangs up (configurable) and does a couple
more nice things.

Schlomo


On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> 
> As the subject says, an automatic hangup option is missing from pppd. I
> like the simplicity of the pppd solution too much, to let this die.
> 
> Here are two possible solutions:
> 
> 1. Use the auto-hangup feature option setting of the modem (mine has it). 
> This causes the modem to hang up after X seconds of non-transmission. This
> could be sabotaged by idle LCP packets and noise when ARQ is off. 
> 
> 2. Hack a timer into pppd for that purpose (I suppose that the kernel
> driver must also be hacked to add the IOCTL call to set the timeout, but
> that is not totally beyond me).
> 
> Consider this as a discussion subject.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>