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pppd autodial: missing auto hangup




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