first of all, thanks. i haven't checked it yet, but i guess that the 'rm'
command was what i was missing. i know that reboot isn't the answer, and
franklly, i hate it.
btw, in your howto for adsl you said about reducing the mtu, why is that?
At 16:13 02/06/2001 +0300, mulix wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Noam Meltzer wrote:
>
> > anyway, from time to time, my adsl connection down, and i can't take it
> > down so easily.
>
>"cant take it down" means what exactly? that you cant get it to
>reconnect?
>
> > actually i have to reboot the computer (maybe moving to
> > runlevel 1 and then to 2 back will help, but when all you have is a telnet
> > window on the masq-server..., anyhow,)
>
>oy vey. reboot is NEVER the answer, unless you have hardware problems.
>never ever. the day reboots start solving problem, you can start calling
>it MSLinux.
>
> > I remember once a discussion on how to take down an adsl-connection and i
> > wish to get a URL for the thread of it in the archive, or a short summary
> > of it.
>
>quite simple, really.
>1. kill pppd.
>2. kill pptp.
>3. if pptp didn't clean up after itself properly, you need to
>'rm /var/run/pptp/10.0.0.138'.
>
>that's all there is to it. that pptp doesn not clean up after itself
>properly is a bug in pptp, which i haven't felt like chasing yet. pptp
>plays some tricks with sigaction and friends, and as long as i didnt
>have to, i did not feel like delving into it. if someone want to do it,
>patches in unified diff format will be gladly accepted.
>
>[ there's a new pptp version out there on the net, which might (or
>might not) have fixed this problem. i haven't check it yet. ]
>--
>mulix
>http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix
>
>linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
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