Hello, I have a ppp connection to the internet. My connection is limited to 30 hours per month so I am watching it pretty closely. I have set up pppd to timeout after 3 minutes of inactivity. This works most of the time. Some time it doesn't. Once I left my computer for an hour and I was surprised to see that the connection was still on! I thought that one of my proces was using the connection so i did a quick dump of ppp0. I was surprise to see that some script kiddy was looking at my netbios port! Now I have been thinking of ways to prevent these silliness from shutting down my conneciton within 3mn. If I firewall these incoming packets I believe that it won't help me. The blocked packet will still traverse the ppp link. So it will still be seen as "activity" to the ppp daemon. Correct me if I am mistaken. Is there a way to setup the the firewall to shutdown ppp if it doesnt see any valid packets within a given time limit? Love to hear some suggestions. Please CC me, I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Ivan -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | "...Deep Hack Mode--that mysterious and | Ivan Kanis | | frightening state of consciousness where | ivank@juliva.com | | Mortal Users fear to tread." (Matt Welsh) | www.juliva.com | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
