From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 11:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bobino.chemcomp.com (bobino.sefmedia.com [207.164.6.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3240A37BD2A for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 11:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abeaupre@chemcomp.com) Received: from ip20.montreal40.dialup.canada.psi.net (ip20.montreal40.dialup.canada.psi.net [154.5.51.20]) by bobino.sefmedia.com (NTMail 5.05.0002/NT6102.00.ff403942) with ESMTP id hlrgaaaa for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:34:16 -0400 Received: from chemcomp.com (sylvester.chemcomp.com [192.1.1.19]) by hermes.chemcomp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D3C16804; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392C1EDB.B7371C9D@chemcomp.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:26:35 -0400 From: Sys Admin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca Subject: How to make PPP redial without outgoing packets Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. From the ppp(8): "If the connect fails, the default behavior is to wait 30 seconds and then attempt to connect when another outgoing packet is detected. This behavior can be changed with the "set redial" command." How can the "set redial" command change the behavior of attempting to connect only _when another outgoing packet is detected_? My problem is that I use a crontab to make PPP dial at certain intervals, and PPP then calls "fetchmail" as part of its ppp.linkup script. So it won't try to redial if the connection fail, as there is no outgoing packet yet! I'm using FreeBSD 4.0 Release on a Pentium 166MHz. Thanks! Antoine Beaupre Sys Admin Chemical Computing Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message