Date: 22 Jun 2003 12:44:15 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ppp -auto" limited to certain times only? Message-ID: <447k7enjts.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030619193042.N42050@cus.org.uk> References: <20030619193042.N42050@cus.org.uk>
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Ben Cohen <benc@cus.org.uk> writes: > I have fixed-rate dialup access from my ISP but only off-peak. I just > found out that they let me connect at other times but charge me extra so I > want to avoid doing this accidentally. > > I'd like to run "ppp -auto" so that I get dial on demand in the evening, > but stop it connecting in the daytime. I thought of using a cron job to > start and stop ppp but is there a more elegant way? The manual for pppctl(8) has some examples of doing related things via cron entries...
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