Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 May 1999 00:02:35 +1000 | From | Martijn van Oosterhout <> | Subject | Make pppd kill active sockets... |
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I was reading here the other day about why when a ppp interface goes down, it can be brought back up without any of the other levels noticing.
While this may be nice in the general case, in the situation where you have a dialup account where you never get the same IP twice in a row, it is totally useless.
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.
This way you won't get these unclosable sockets that _eventually_ time out.
I wouldn't even know where to start looking into this.
Martijn van Oosterhout Australia
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