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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:27:43 -0600 (MDT)
From:      wes@intele.net
To:        ingham@i-pi.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I want PPP to stay up all the time
Message-ID:  <199606220527.XAA03328@obie.softweyr.com>

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Kenneth Ingham asked:
 > I'm have a full-time (modem) ppp connection to the internet.  I'd
 > like the link to stay up all the time.  What happens now with both
 > kernel and user PPP is that if the link drops (i.e. due to a noisy
 > phone line), it stays down.

Frank Seltzer replied:
 % Have you tried the -auto switch to user ppp? This is how I maintain a 
 % full-time link to the net.
 % 
 % 	ppp -auto <provider>
 % 
 % Works fine.

Also set timeout to 0 in the ppp.conf file.  This should cause PPP to
redial immediately (well, within 30 seconds) if the link drops and
someone is routing traffic over it.

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