Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:42:23 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "George M. Ellenburg" <gme@caffeine.sundial.net> Subject: Re: Dedicated PPP Message-ID: <00ed01be5fb8$7709ba60$0200000a@danco.home>
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George M. Ellenburg <gme@caffeine.sundial.net> wrote:
>Question: What is the correct procedure for having userland PPP, called
>from rc.local, establish and maintain a persistent connection?
> ppp -dedicated -alias <profile> or...
> ppp -ddial -alias <profile>
I start ppp not from rc.local, but from /etc/start_if.tun0:
ppp -auto -alias demand
This file gets executed after the tun0 device is brought up during boot.
-dedicated for direct wiring, and doesn't execute any chat scripts, so login
negiotiation isn't performed. Sound like -ddial is what you need, to
automatically redial any time the connection gets broken.
>The PPP process is dropping, sometimes after 13 hours, sometimes after as
>little as 20 minutes. Even with a single ping running from cron every 5
>minutes the connection is dropping, and sometimes not redialing. Does
>anyone have any ideas?
You might try increasing the timeout value in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf:
<profile>:
set timeout <bignumber of seconds>
The default is only 300 seconds (5 min).
Hope this helps,
--Dan
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