From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 07:58:37 2003 Return-Path: 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 0C99016A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 07:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D9C43F75 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 07:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1063897107.b9f6c6@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h8DF83lt004262 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:08:03 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by 3s1.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) id h8DEwXRu004282 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:58:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david+dated+1063897107.b9f6c6@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 3s1.com (8.12.8p1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8DEwRoB004252 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by 3s1.com (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:58:26 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030913145826.GA4225@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: David Banning X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Subject: setting up a second ppp connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:58:37 -0000 Sometimes my pppoe connection goes down, and since I want to find out about it right away, I was thinking it would be helpful to have my freebsd box connect to the net via a dialup line, and then email my cell phone that the connection is down. I don 't want to disable the pppoe connection which is still attempting to connect. Any idea if something like this is possible? --