Re: Stop PPP connection question

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:15:16PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Hugo,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> - snip -
> 
> > > /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for
> > > provider 'ds-provider'. None      stopped.
> > > 
> > 
> > That means pppd was not running ds-provider.
> > What does ps -f -C pppd show?
> 
> In my case
> 
> $ ps -f -C pppd
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> root       602     1  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 pppd
> call dsl-provider
> 
> B.S.
> Stephen

Sounds like a typo - if you have dsl-provider in your /proc, it should
be:

poff dsl-provider

NOT:

poff ds-provider

DISCLAIMER:

   I do not have DSL.
   I do not have dialup.
   I do not use PPP.
   I connect to Cox via a paternally-run LAN.

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