From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 14:54:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA00197 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:54:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00192 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:54:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01813; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:51:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:51:41 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602152251.PAA01813@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telling if User PPP is up or down In-Reply-To: <199602152112.OAA03021@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <96Feb15.155001est.20482-2@janus.border.com> <199602152112.OAA03021@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > Call me bind, BUT, How is this going to tell if the dial-on-demand > > feature has the line currently in use. > > replace "ppp" with the name of the program that is running the link. > > If the program that is there when the link is there is present, then > the link is up. Umm, it seems you missed something.. > Call me bind, BUT, How is this going to tell if the dial-on-demand ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The line may be taken, but the link may not be 'up' if there is no demand for it. Nate