[pptp-server] PPTP CTRL Connection

[Allan Clark]

> I find the same problem - if the client doesn't do a graceful disconnect
> (ie
> just turn off or unplug) then PPPD will terminate but the ctrl
> connection
> stays open.  As a fast workaround, could you pass the PID number of ctrl
> connection to PPPD (by appending "iiparam PIDNUMBER" to the command line
> that
> calls pppd).  Then when I run my ip-down script, I can kill the
> ctrl-connection as well.
>
> This also has the benefit that you could use the timeout in pppd to
> close the
> connection.
>
> Ideally ctrl connection would monitor the pppd demon, and terminate
> itself
> when pppd dies, but I guess that would require quite a bit more work.

SIGCHLD ?

Allan