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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:09:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net>
To:        Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I want PPP to stay up all the time
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960620200659.27665F-100000@Kryten.nina.com>
In-Reply-To: <199606202336.RAA00786@cube.i-pi.com>

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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Kenneth Ingham wrote:

> OS: FreeBSD 2.1.
> 
> 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.

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.

> Kenneth Ingham
> ingham@i-pi.com

Frank
--
Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a 
draft dodger sleeps in the White House.    <unknown>





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