Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 17:50:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Paul Hamilton <paul@computerwest.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: auto restarting a ppp connection Message-ID: <20030502145039.GD98449@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <AGEHIFHGNEMPFNCPLONMEECGEJAA.paul@compwest.com.au> References: <AGEHIFHGNEMPFNCPLONMEECGEJAA.paul@compwest.com.au>
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On 2003-05-02 21:44, Paul Hamilton <paul@computerwest.com.au> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running FreeBSD 4.7, and using the built in ppp (and ppp nat), > software to make a pppoe connection. > > Once or twice a month my ISP does something that causes my connection > to be blocked. The only way to fix this is to kill the ppp connection > and re-start it. I have tried to put the whole routine into a script, > ie, find the pid, kill it, wait, then restart the ppp connection. The > idea, was that I could link it with a ping tester, then when I miss > 'x' number of pings, restart the connection. This is what I used:- > > --snip--- > > PPP=`ps -ax | grep "ppp -nat" | grep -v "grep" | cut -c 1-6` > if test $PPP > #if test $PPP != "" > then > kill -15 $PPP > echo Wait for 5 seconds to properly kill the old PPP process > printf "%s" "." > sleep 1 > printf "%s" "." > sleep 1 > printf "%s" "." > sleep 1 > printf "%s" "." > sleep 1 > printf "%s" "." > sleep 1 > printf "%s\n" "." > sleep 1 > else > echo > echo No PPP process found to kill > fi > ---snip--- > > I found that my script had problems with killing the ppp pid, in that it > didn't really kill the ppp process, until the script had exited. After the 5 seconds have passed it's relatively "safe" to kill -9 $PPP. Whenever there is a problem with my PPP connection, I write something like this: killall ppp ; sleep 5 ; killall ppp ; sleep 10 ; killall -9 ppp :)
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