From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 09:18:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06354 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06349 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:18:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id KAA20261; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:17:42 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702281717.KAA20261@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Automatic re-dial To: natlow@empnet.com (Nat Low) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:17:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Nat Low" at Feb 27, 97 04:50:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ryan Duda recently asked: % I was wondering if there is a way to make ppp or pppd automatic redial if % there is a disconnection. Nat Low replied: > To keep my connection established, I have a cron job that checks my mail > every 10 minutes with popclient. If you use IIJPPP (user-mode PPP) and set timeout to 0, it will redial the link anytime it goes down. This works nicely for 'nailed up' PPP connections over POTS lines. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com