Re: Automatic Phone (dis)connection. RH6

[smooge redhat com (Steve "Smooge" Smoogen)]

Hmmm looks like /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-ppp0 has ONBOOT="yes" in it. You
can manually edit this to ONBOOT="no" or use netcfg to turn it off.


On 27 Sep 1999 16:17:13 -0400, Steven Walker <swalk anit es> wrote:
>I have been fiddling with the (K)PPP settings trying to find the right
>combination to connect to the Internet.
>
>What I have succeeded in doing is getting the computer to automatically
>connect on booting or after disconnection.  It is costing me a FORTUNE!! I
>keep forgetting to disconnect the line and was on for 36 hours :-(((
>
>Can someone please tell me how to enable connection only on demand.  Even
>better would be to also disconnect if idle for X minutes.
>
>Steve
>
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