Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 02:41:22 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Jon M. Craig (Pazuzu)" <pazuzu@amphigory.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP not redialing... Message-ID: <199901090241.CAA50192@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Jan 1999 07:37:07 EST." <199901081246.HAA05157@legba.pwrtc.com>
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> About two weeks ago I (finally!) upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.8. My FreeBSD > machine has a dedicated dial-up connection to the Net that I need to stay > up 24/7 no matter what. PPP used to, despite my ISP's best efforts to > thwart it, keep my connection live anytime it dropped. > > Now it doesn't. I have both reconnect and redial set to 50 tries, random > delay, but when the connection drops (usually at like 5am every day), PPP > does NOTHING. When I wake up at 7, it's still dead and will remain dead > until I do something. The weird thing is, all I do is run pppctl xxxx, and > it dials instantly. Before I even see the password prompt. What is the > problem here and how do I fix it? Are you running ``ppp -ddial whatever'' ? I'd suspect you're running ppp -auto and that the pppctl is triggering a DNS lookup.... If this isn't the case, how about supplying your config and a mention of how you're running ppp :-] > --- > Fr. Pazuzu 7:7:9 - Co-Owner of Amphigory, The Gothic & Magickal Emporium > Editor, Sentence ov Desire > Email: pazuzu@amphigory.com > WWW: http://www.amphigory.com/ -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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