Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 09:52:24 -0800 From: patl@asimov.volant.org To: nate@sri.MT.net Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, mark@grondar.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to keepalive a sick ppp process? Message-ID: <9601131752.AA05174@asimov.volant.org>
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|> [ PPPD ] |> =20 |> > 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. |> =20 |> 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. Yep, that sounds like what I want. Where do I find them, and to which (OS)=05versions do they apply? (I'm currently running 2.0.5, but expect = to upgrade to 2.1 once the CD-ROM makes it into the local stores.) -Pat My opinions are my own. For a small royalty, they can be yours as = well... Pat Lashley, Senior Software Engineer, Henry Davis Consulting patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG || http://Phoenix.Volant.ORG/ || = lashley@netcom.com
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