Date: 03 Dec 2003 17:31:58 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: cole@acenet.co.za Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP redial Message-ID: <44y8ttleht.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200312022203.AA1757479132@acenet.co.za> References: <200312022203.AA1757479132@acenet.co.za>
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"Cole" <cole@acenet.co.za> writes: > I would like to know whether anyone has any idea on how to set the > redial option in ppp on freebsd to no-redial. I have checked the > man page and tried various options. Setting the redial number to 0, > means infinite redials, till it connects. I dont want that. You > cannot set the value to a negative number, i also tried that. I want > to turn off all redialing, not have it at like 1, cause as soon as > it does reconnect, the redial counter is cleared, so if it makes a > succesful connection, and is then cutoff, and makes a new > connection, in less than a second or so, it will do this > ad-infinitum. Which is not what i want. It sounds like you're using the -auto flag when you don't actually want to do that...
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