[ILUG] killing ppp after inactivity...

[kevin lyda]

for those of us too lazy to set up diald, there's always the question
of turning off ppp connections when we're tired but have a large
ftp session going, this script might be of use:

    #/bin/sh
    echo -e "time\t total\t\tdelta\tdeltas below 30 (exit when > 4)"
    o=0
    f=0
    while /sbin/ifconfig | grep -q ppp0; do
	n=`/sbin/ifconfig ppp0|grep RX|cut -d: -f2|cut -d\  -f1`
	if [ $[ $n - $o ] -lt 30 ]; then
	    f=$[ $f + 1 ]
	    if [ $f -gt 4 ]; then
		/sbin/ifdown ppp0
	    fi
	fi
	date "+%T $n%t%t"$[ $n - $o ]"%t$f"
	o=$n
	sleep 15
    done

i save this under pppwait in my bin dir.

kevin

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