Disconnecting from the phone line

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Author: the wolf
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Subject: Disconnecting from the phone line
Peter Martin wrote:
>
> LOL !! I just re-booted for now. Now quite as drastic, but I had to go
> back into MS to use the company's outlook for my mail. Such is life.
>
> wrote:
> >
> > \_ Well, I finally managed to get Mandrake 7.1 loaded and executing on
> > \_ my laptop! I'm thrilled!! However, how do I disconnect from the
> > \_ net? I'm not sure how I connected even!
> >
> > There's a wire...remove it. :-)
> >
> > /me ducks
> >
> > David
> >
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to disconnect a modem connection:

1. check if ppp0 is your connection
    ifconfig should tell you that then:
2. kill -TERM `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`


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