Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:40:56 +0100 (MET) From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE Cc: freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current, dial-on-demand, hang up the phone? Message-ID: <m10COGf-0000CQC@hcswork.hcs.de> In-Reply-To: <vaf7ltj3kne.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> from "Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE" at "Feb 15, 99 01:40:21 pm"
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>From the keyboard of Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE: > I start Emacs at work and let it (X11) display on my home machine. > I have a dynamic ip address. Thus, when the ISDN thingy hangs up on > me, the Emacs session is disrupted rather rudely. > > Thus, I want the connection to stay open (even if it costs money) > while I stare at a program started interactively, but I also want the > ability to hang up the phone when I feel like it. What you need are two things: 1) a commandline utility, where you can say "hang up the line now" 2) a dial filter, which prevents further dial tries. Then what you do with it is write two scripts, lets name them "on" and "off" where on contains something like: isdnconnectcontrol hangup isdndialfilter -installfilter telnet to close the connection and prevent further dial retries and where on contains something like: isdndialfilter -deinstallfilter telnet Neither isdnconnectcontrol nor isdndialfilter are existent, but a similar effect should be gained by issuing "ifconfig ispX down" and "ifconfig ispX up". hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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