Greetings Eberhard!
On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 at 08:06:33 GMT +0200 (which was 11:06 PM where you
think I live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
EH> Hello phil,
EH> Thursday, May 18, 2000, 3:36:10 AM, you wrote:
EH>>> I have a problem with the dial-up. Sometimes it happens that I press
EH>>> Alt-F2 accidentally. So TB! tries to dial up, which I wish to
EH>>> cancel, of course. Unfortunately, my clicking on "Hang Up" don't
EH>>> cease the continued attempts of TB! to connect.
EH>>> Is there any way around this?
>> I always, yank the cable out of the wall about this time... <G>
EH> This sure cures The little Bloodsucker for good! :-D
(I gotta put a standard disclaimer: I aint responsible for Nothing.)
Wish I could tell you a better way honestly. Actually I have several
methods I use to break the connection. Keep in mind it depends on the
state of your modem as to which method would work at what point in
time. Ahh, I miss the dos days, the modem was much more responsive,
back when you could hit the escape key and the modem would stop
whatever behavior was going on. But these days with scripts and other
automated ways of calling RAS or DUN, you get a little delay between
when you demand it stop and it actually stops.
In RAS for NT I use RASDIAL /DISCONNECT (ACCOUNT)
from a dos box (a batch file can be made and kept on the desktop)
In DUN, I search the internet for a program called RASDIAL95.
Then I do the same As I would do in NT.
RASDIAL95 /DISCONNECT (ACCOUNT)
Although I admit, using RASDIAL, and RASDIAL95 Don't always solve my
problem. Then I..
CTR-ALT-DEL | Shutdown the program that dialed, while listening for a
click. Or else..
There's the wire Yanking method I mentioned above...
There's the power switch. (last resort possible data loss)
If it's a LAN connection, like across an ethernet cable with a
gateway, then I yank the ethernet cable, or shut the gateway machine
that is dialing off. Usually only yanking the cable is fine to hide
my data from being sent where I don't want, and then I can walk over
and break the connection on the Gateway machine.
In general though, yanking the cable is the most effective.
I guess power could be shut off on a hub also.
I have a black box that switches from phone line to phone line, makes
reaching for cables a non-issue. Such a box can be created from
modular plugs, solder n soldering gun, a switch and a utility box all
available from radio shack. There are probably other ways to deal
with this also like using the parallel port to control a switch and
break the connections. (see COFFEE HOW-TO in any linux distro for an
ASCII schematic) I recently built a neat little peripheral that plugs
into the parallel port that will actually make my coffee in the
morning. There is a BASIC program floating around on the net that can
be used to send 1's, and 0's to the port.
Good Luck <G>
French Roast, or Guatemalan / Costa Rican Coffee...YuMMmm
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