Taking down a dial up connection

[jnicks]

Is there a programmatic, like command line, way to force a diskconnect from a dialup connection?

The little modems or screens or whatever they are are somewhat awkward and also cannot be used to disconnect in case of a nasty like KLEZ arriving (which is kind of easy to notice).

I know some browsers have this as an option so I suspect it is something like a RUNDLL32...

Help? Thanks
J

 

[darranagl]

You can use the command line prompt..


COM1 >> echo "+++"

or something like that, just change the COM port to your modems port (usually COM3 for a software modem, WinModem). You will have to play around with it. New Zealand, a great place to visit.

http://www.southland.org.nz

 

[jnicks]

G'day Darranagl,

REally good idea, send the modem a shutdown.

Fut on my sys. when WinSock has the modem in a windows session it is locked out of a DOS VM

So I'm missing something....

? ? ?

snip of DOS echo attempts follow...


Microsoft(R) Windows 98

F:\>echo +++>com1

Write fault error writing device COM1
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?

F:\>echo +++>>com1

Write fault error writing device COM1
/Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?