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> Am Do, den 30.09.2004 schrieb gramels um 16:18:
> 
>>it would be also good to have the ability to enforce a disconnect at a
>>certain time (also for german dsl user)
> 
> A forced diconnect is only possible after a defined timeout. We have to
> set/change these parameters in /var/etc/mpd.conf:
> 
> set iface disable on-demand	# change to "enable on-demand"
> set iface idle 0		# set a reasonable timeout
> 


A better approach would be to *schedule* the disconnect -> connect 
procedure.

I have the same problem with my DSL provider in France. Their PPPoE 
session lasts 7 days, no more. So it would be very convenient to plan 
the release of the PPPoE session, say on every Sunday at 4:00 AM.

As I use m0n0wall for my VPN tunnels, I'm sure the PPPoE session won't 
expire in the middle of the week because of a power loss had 
"programmed" it 7 days ago...

For the moment, I do it with curl (on a 24/7 running server) calling the 
reboot.php page, but that's not so clean :-(

I just see one solution: a cron daemon in m0n0wall. I've already asked 
Manuel and this topic has already been discussed on the list.

To be continued...

-- Vincent