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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 23:20:12 -0700
From:      snowcrash+freebsd <schneecrash+freebsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPPoE equivalent?
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hi,

> I'm not sure there is, I've had a similar problem like this before,
> and I got around
> it by writing a simple script that would try and ping a local site 4
> times, and if no
> responses got back it would killall ppp and delete the default routes
> and tell ppp
> to reconnect. It worked quite well when put into cron to run at 1
> minute intervals.

i'm getting all this set up as well, and following this thread ...

(1) are not ppp.linkup & ppp.linkdown supposed to be the 'place' to
deal with this?

(2) could you share your simple script?

thanks!



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