Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 23:30:17 +0200 | From | ak@muc ... | Subject | Re: Make pppd kill active sockets... |
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On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 10:53:36PM +0200, 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..)
Yes, it uses the IFF_DYNAMIC interface flag. So if you don't set it nothing happens.
-Andi
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