Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 08:10:48 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd redial script Message-ID: <19990404081048.A1776@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904032015420.13153-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>; from Rowan Crowe on Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 08:45:49PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904032015420.13153-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
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rowan, On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 08:45:49PM +1000, Rowan Crowe wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a redial script I wrote the other night, which redials after the > link drops out but backs off exponentially if redial attempts keep > failing. (In Australia, we pay 25c per call, so if the other end is > answering but there's some sort of PPP problem, constant redials could end > up costing $$$). Redial delay is capped at 300 seconds maximum. > > Basically the delays for repeated failed attempts will go something like: > 5, 15, 45, 135, 300, 300, 300... > > Once the link has been up more than 10 minutes, it is considered "stable" > and the redial delay is reset to 5 seconds when it next drops. > > I'd be interested in any comments. Feel free to use it yourselves. To run > it in the background use '&' on the commandline. (the info messages could > probably be >>'d to a log file). one thing that would make ths really usefull, more than an exponential backoff is a determinable cuttof point, that is a point at which teh script 'times out' so to speak and stops trying. we have some wondderfull cicsos up here tthat have a strange idea of what v.90 pstn connectivity is supposed to be. it is not unknown fro a modem (with pppd) to just keep redailing, at 25 cents a time. just a thought, for us not free local call types outside of usa telephone thinking/billing areas. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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