From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 21:54:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27169 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA27159 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knife.statsci.com (knife [206.63.206.137]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with ESMTP id VAA18981; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:51:37 -0700 Received: from knife.statsci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knife.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/UUCP) with ESMTP id VAA04884; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708010451.VAA04884@knife.statsci.com> To: Brian Somers cc: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su, questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd questions mailing list) Subject: Re: current ppp sources References: <199708010303.EAA04686@awfulhak.org> In-reply-to: <199708010303.EAA04686@awfulhak.org> From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <4876.870411062.1@knife.statsci.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:51:02 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Somers wrote: > Won't > > set phone "111111:222222:111111:333333" > > solve this ? How? Isn't it just cycling to the next number every time it tries to dial out? What I was thinking of as a normal mode when everything is working right would be that the first number is the only one that ever gets dialed. The remaining numbers would be fallbacks in case there was some sort of error getting connected to the first one. (note that I'm using the -auto flag, so the connection times out and gets re-established frequently while the system is up). Maybe it could be a different syntax to denote fallback numbers like this: set phone "100|101|102:200|201|202" to use ":" to separate numbers that should be used in sequence. Use "|" to separate primary numbers from their fallbacks. So, in the above, if all of the phone numbers are successfully connecting, it would alternate between "100" and "200". It would only try "101" if "100" failed. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org