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From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
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To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: how to automagically restart net/pptpclient?
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Dominic Marks wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:57:52AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > I have installed net/pptpclient (1.0.3).  About 5 times a week, it dies
> > and must be restarted.  Does anyone have a script which checks and
> > restarts it if it has died?
>
> You might like to try one of the other PPTP clients on offer. I
> switched from using pptpclient to mpd and think it is superior. This
> is all covered in the Handbook :)

I have to support that. I used pptpclient a long time for my ADSL
connection but switched to mpd(-netgraph), which seems to me more stable
and smoother and more "BSD-like".

For checking and restarting I used a little shell script which just pings
some host and takes the appropriate measures when it can't reach the host.
It runs from cron every five minutes or so.

regards,
le

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