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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
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Subject: Re: PPPD
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, William Woods wrote:

> OK, I am useinf pppd to connect on boot, I call it from rc.local. That is no
> problem, what I would like to do is if the connection drops, have it
> automatically redial....any ideas?

Dunno about pppd but ppp will do this with the -ddial option.

You could run pppd in an infinite loop.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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