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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...