Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 10:47:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: patl@Phoenix.volant.org Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, mark@grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to keepalive a sick ppp process? Message-ID: <199601131747.KAA26913@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9601131737.AA05156@asimov.volant.org> References: <9601131737.AA05156@asimov.volant.org>
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[ PPPD ] > I'm using a USR 28,800 Sportster, which drops the line occasionally. > My solution is to run 'ping -i 60 HISADDR', where HISADDR is the IP > address of the machine at the other end of the PPP link. The '-i 60' > keeps the ping packets down to one a minute, so the overhead is > insignificant. If the line is dropped, it is less than a minute before > a redial is triggered by the ping packet. Ahh, in this sort of case, you want my '-ddial' (Demon Dialer/Dedicated Dialer) fixes. Basically, those patches cause the system to keep the line up no matter what. No pings are necessary, since the ppp process knows when the line goes down and it tries to bring it back up. Nate
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