From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 9:22:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A26B37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from citizen.in.th (thaicommunity.inet.co.th [203.150.2.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C695C43E7B for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from krissada@mailthai.com) Received: (qmail 47949 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2002 17:15:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO krissada@mailthai.com@verify.mailthai.com) (63.203.206.204) by thaicommunity.inet.co.th with SMTP; 14 Nov 2002 17:15:00 -0000 From: "Krissada Jindanupajit (FreeBSD-question)" To: "'Liquid'" Cc: Subject: RE: resent - in txt format - using PPP to establish a PPPoE connection - won't renew if connection is dropped Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:22:13 -0800 Message-ID: <004201c28c02$60e4dd30$0100a8c0@sun> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000501c28bec$b9573c80$6400a8c0@windows> 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 You can configure "/etc/ppp/ppp.linkdown" to redial. [ppp.linkdown] isp: /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat isp #--end ppp.linkdown (change isp to your isp label) and put redial to your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf man ppp to see how This is just an idea. I never try this. :P :D \^o^/ || -----Original Message----- || From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG || [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Liquid || Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:47 AM || To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org || Subject: resent - in txt format - using PPP to establish || a PPPoE connection - won't renew if connection is dropped || || || || Sorry everyone, forgot to convert to txt before sending || this, so I'll resend || || I'm having this huge problem: I have adsl, and I connect || using that PPPoE garbage. I also just changed ISP for a || less expensive one, and I'm beginning to realize why its || less expensive. I'm running a machine with FreeBSD 4.7 || stable on it and whenever it gets disconnected (about || twice daily, believe it or not) it can't seem to || "realize" that such is the case and thus never reconnects || to get a new IP. Does anyone have any idea what I can do || to fix this? Whenever I'm not around, and this happens, || I have to go out of my way to drive to where this box is || located to reboot it. It's the only way I'm able to || force it to reconnect. || || TIA || || || || 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