Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Is there some canonical way to detect and time out an idle ppp link? : It seems that you can't just use the standard login tools (timeoutd, : idled, or autolog) because wtmp doesn't have correct idle data for a : ppp link (seems that only LCP packets count as activity).
I think what you are looking for is the "idle-disconnect" parameter of pppd. This parameter seems to be undocumented and sets the number of seconds of idle time before disconneting a PPP link. By "idle-time" it means "no IP traffic through the wire" so if you leave the default "lcp-echo-interval" parameter set, you won't ever get disconnected. To activate idle-disconnection just add a line like idle-disconnect 240 to /etc/ppp/options if you want this to be global to all PPP connections or to /etc/ppp/options/ttyS?? if you want just certain serial ports to be disconnected after certain time of inactivity. I hope this is what you are looking for. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
