From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 13:11:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06193 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06183 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01508; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd001500; Wed May 13 20:09:29 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 13:09:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Mark Szlaga cc: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jenkins.mike@epamail.epa.gov Subject: Re: Ethernet -> natd -> Dynamic-IP dialup (solved) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Only two other questions. IIRC there was a way to have pppd under linux to > do a keepalive. Is this possible for ppp? As I want to keep a permanent > connection as much as possible, with the least amount of extra programs > being run (I had a keepup program written to dial and maintain the link in > linux, but had many problems...). Well you can set the ppp daemon to do this it can be set to redial immediatly if it loses connection, and to try never hang up. the old RTFM thing, I'm afraid :-) I don't do that so I can't remember the details julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message