On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:11:32PM +1200, John Rye wrote:
> >
>
> Your script was very similar to what I had arrived at but still produced
> the same problem - just didn't make sense.
>
> I have since tried the method described by Dennis further back in the thread.
>
> It works - well mostly....
>
> 2 'oddies' - seems Linux can neither start NOR shutdown the ppp0 interface
> - returns a FAILED message during the process - I'll work my way thru that.
>
I made an icon for "ifup ppp0 &" to get the show on the road each time I boot.
> The other is that I can't disconnect gracefully - dropping line by disconnecting
> the phoneline physically til I work that one out.. off to get another pair of
> sidecutters in the morrow <grin>
As I see it the only way to exit gracefully is to let dod do it for
you. Because I have limited isp time I have been playing with 30 secs idle to
see whether I can live with that while reducing the amount of time wasted on
shutdown. So far so good.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
All the best.
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