> 1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time
> that my debian box has been connected?
You can find the last connection time by grepping for "remote IP address"
in /var/log/messages. Then you can use 'date -d <datestring> +%s' to
convert this to seconds since 1970, you can also get the time now
expressed as seconds since 1970 with 'date +%s' then subtract one from
the other and you've got the number of seconds you've been connected.
The rest is straightforward.
> 2. How can I set my box up to automatically disconnect after say about
> 7.5 hours, and then reconnect?
Set up a script in /etc/ip-up.d that runs something like:
#!/bin/sh
( sleep 27000; killall ppd ) &
(Not tested.)
Hope that helps ..
Alexis
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