From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 22 11:26:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay1.adelphia.net (smtprelay1.adelphia.net [64.8.25.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0CB37B403 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 11:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay1.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGW0HK00.4Y6; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:24:56 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6MIOUW00989; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:24:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:24:30 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp -dedicated....how dedicated? Message-ID: <20010722142430.A725@localhost> References: <006201c1125a$8c543510$45e91e3e@mark2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006201c1125a$8c543510$45e91e3e@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:58:43AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As it was put forth by Mark Hughes on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:58:43AM +0100... > I'm investigating ways to keep my ADSL line up as much as is possible. I'm > currently using ppp -auto, however while this is fine if i'm inside my > house trying to get "out", when I'm outside the house it may have > disconnected itself, and unless something inside the house tries to send > info out, it won't be connected so I won't be able to get in, if you see > what I mean. > > So, I'm going to try the -dedicated switch rather than auto, then if I get > disconnected by my ISP, for whatever reason, it will automatically keep > trying to bring the line back up. > > The question I've got is, for how long will it keep trying to bring the > line back up? Will it do it indefinately? > > I've read through the docs I can find on this, and none seem to say what > happens in the event of it not being able to connect for an extended period > of time.....say my ISP dropped the line for five hours, would > ppp -dedicated bring it straight back up after this, or would something > have timeed out? Have you checked out the -ddial option. It has the ability to do what you're looking for. Specifically the set redial set reconnect options. Ian > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message