Re: Make pppd kill active sockets...

Bo Branten (g@cx888441-a.cv1.sdca.home.com)
Sun, 2 May 1999 13:53:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 2 May 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:

> >So I was wondering if there was a way to notify
> >applications with a connection over the ppp link
> >when it goes down, maybe with SIGPIPE, EPIPE or
> >a Host Unreachable message.
>
> I plan to release a patch for that soon.
>
>
> -Andi

Could you make it configurable on the fly if possible?
Since I (and all the dialup users in my univ.) get static ip for dialup,
this feature(bug) is pretty useful for us.. (you know, your ssh connection
will be still up even after you got disconnected & reconnected..)

-Ji

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