From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 07:34:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA08701 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 07:34:36 -0700 Received: from kksys.skypoint.net (kksys.skypoint.net [199.86.32.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA08694 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 07:34:33 -0700 Received: from starfire.mn.org by kksys.skypoint.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0s1DPA-00028vC; Tue, 18 Apr 95 08:33 CDT Received: (from john@localhost) by starfire.mn.org (8.6.8/1.2.1) id JAA17281 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:33:48 -0500 From: John Lind Message-Id: <199504181433.JAA17281@starfire.mn.org> Subject: pppd not re-connecting with FreeBSD 2.0-950322-SNAP To: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 09:33:47 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1130 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have the following command at the end of /etc/rc.local to start up a PPP uplink for a customer to the Internet: /usr/sbin/pppd connect /etc/ppp/call.skypoint defaultroute /dev/cuaa0 115200 The "call.skypoint" script usese chat(1) to establish the link and negotiate a login to the Portmaster terminal server. Here is the contents of the "/etc/ppp/options" file: crtscts modem lock It works great -- brings up the link right after booting and things seem happy -- until the link drops, and then, unlike the slattach that I am more used to, it doesn't bring it up again. Since I am on the other side of the link, I am unable to see anything about the system state at that time. Does pppd not reconnect? Does it just exit and that's it? Do I need some sort of script to detect when pppd exits and re-issue the command to start it? Or is there an option that I missed that will instruct it to reconnect? I have read the man page on pppd and the ppp.FAQ, but didn't get any help on this issue from either one... John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417