Re: [LI] Monitoring Serial port

[Bhyrava Prasad <prasadb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely! PPP itself has an inactivity timeout facility
which I tried out sometime ago. See man pppd for this. 
The man page of pppd in Redhat 5.2 did not have this clearly , but
you should be able to find it in the Redhat 6.0 man page.
You will need to set this option in /etc/ppp/options , if I am
not mistaken.

If you want to turn it off at specific times, you can do it
from a cron job.

- B. Prasad


mmphadke@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have dial-in setup on linux where our brach offices dial in for exchanging
> mail on tcpip link. Th only problem is people forget to disconnect after
> mailing is over. This results in wastage of call on caller side and lines
> remaining busy at our end.
> I want to monitor ppp link and disconnect if there is no activity for say 5
> min. Is there any s/w in linux to do this.
> moreover I want to use specialix multport serial card on it. the same s/w
> sjould handle that too.
> 
> TAI
> 
> regards
> Manoj Phadke
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