Re: PPP not disconnecting

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From: Carl Witthoft
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:00

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In article <654v1o$eaa$2@swlab1.msd.ray.com>, rfl@swl.msd.ray.com wrote:

> In article <01bcf695$ccd06260$36c022c3@cathy.thefree.net>, "Cathy
Gulbrandsen" <tech.support@thefree.net> writes:
> |>Is there anything one can do to make PPP automatically disconnect when
> |>quitting Internet application or when finished to download mail from the
> |>mail server?
> |>
> |>At the moment I have got this problem both with OT/PPP and free PPP
> |>
> |>Even the version of Claris that is suppose to include this feature.
> |>
> |>Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
> 
> FreePPP (and I think, OT/PPP) has a "timeout if idle after xx minutes"
setting.
> 
> PPP software simply responds to requests to move packets.  It doesn't know
> whether a running program is a comm program or not, so it's not going to care
> whether a program quits or not.  There's no way for it to tell that
you're done 

Dunno if this helps, but Eudora Lite has a Settings option to close PPP
when you quit Eudora.  Note that it will only close PPP if it was the app
that opened it (a good safety feature).

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Date: 1997/11/22
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