Thanks for the info - will be added to the HOWTO.
A shell script that does this will be helpful as well ..
Dani
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 03-Sep-2000 Dani Arbel wrote:
> > just kill the pptp session
>
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > Killing the PPPOE ppp daemon or doing ifconfig eth0 down
>
>
> I had already tried both killing pptp and killing ppp and both solutions did
> break the connection, but when I ran pptp again to reconnect, everything
> seemed OK (no error messages), but I was in fact not on-line.
>
> What I discovered was that in addition to killing pptp, I have to end the ppp0
> session (ifconfig ppp0 down). Otherwise, when I run pptp again, it creates a
> new ppp session (ppp1) but although there are no error messages, I am in fact
> not in-line.
>
> So as I said, the full solution is:
>
> 1 - ps
> 2 - kill x (where x is the PID of pptp)
> 3 - ifconfig ppp0 down
>
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