Re: Disconnection command?

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.protocols.ppp, in article
<m21wvtg5ta.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

Under Gnu/Debian Linux, to connect and disconnect I use the commands
'pon' and 'poff' respectively.
Instead, other Linux distributions don't have 'pon' and 'poff':

Yes, that's a Debian application.

then I connect with 'pppd call my_provider', but don't
know how to disconnect apart from switching off the phone.

If you have access to that console/terminal where you ran that command
and it is _running_ the pppd daemon (no command prompt), then pressing
the left Ctrl and C keys will stop the session.

If you ran that 'pppd call my_provider' and the command prompt returns
so that you can do other things while the call is in progress, then
you can disconnect using

killall -TERM pppd

Old guy
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