Re: Make pppd kill active sockets...

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Sun, 2 May 1999 20:20:09 -0700 (PDT)


Hello All,

On Sun, 2 May 1999 g@cx888441-a.cv1.sdca.home.com wrote:
> 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
I have to second this . I have found this Feature/Bug -very-
useful . Tia, JimL
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