Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Make pppd kill active sockets... | Date | Sun, 2 May 1999 16:23:13 +0200 |
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In muc.lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: >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.
I plan to release a patch for that soon.
-Andi
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