From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 05:51:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA25001 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 05:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA24994 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 05:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA10711; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:57:23 -0400 Message-Id: <199607011257.IAA10711@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: ppp problems To: flaq@synwork.com (Mike K.) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:57:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: from "Mike K." at "Jun 30, 96 09:44:26 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike K. wrote... [preamble removed] For a dedicated connection, I'd suggest using pppd. There has been some discussion recently on problems using the ppp program for long term / dedicated connections. (Although I use dial-on-demand, I need to stop and re-start the ppp program about once a week, it seems to get choked up.) Your approach (using the script to bring the connection back, if it's vanished) would work fine with pppd. If you want to persist with ppp, I'd say use dial-on-demand, with no timeout, so you will never drop the connection, but it will be restored immediately when needed, if it drops. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key