Todd Gruhn [Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:21:18AM +0800]:
> I have often drawn away from my computer for extended
> periods of time, of which I forgot to disconnect my ppp
> connection to the ISP.
> Has anyone had this problem, and have you tried writing
> a daemon (preferably in PERL) which would watch the ppp
> port and disconnect it after activity dropped to, or below
> a certain level for an extended period of time?
> Has anyone had success with this problem?

$ man pppd
[...]
       idle n Specifies that pppd should disconnect if  the  link
              is  idle  for  n seconds.  The link is idle when no
[...]


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