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. ]
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