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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      camattin@ncsu.edu (Chris Mattingly)
To:        val@omnisolve.com (Valtaire)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pppd timeout?
Message-ID:  <199610162220.SAA34296@heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610161428.OAA14147@omnisolve.com> from "Valtaire" at Oct 16, 1996 02:28:11 PM

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Valtaire wrote the following about "pppd timeout?" on Wed Oct 16 10:28:11 1996
> 
> is there a way to set pppd to timeout and hang up if a user goes idle
> for a certain amount of time, say 15 minutes?  I used to use ijppp
> but i have switched over to pppd and don't know ot do it.  Doesn't say
> in the man page.
> 
>  - Joel

add 'idle <timeout>'  to the pppd command line arguments.

-Chris
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