Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 03:28:35 -0500 (CDT) From: dlr <dlr@asylum.org> To: vrozma01@barney.poly.edu (VyacheslavS. Rozman) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP redial Message-ID: <199506090828.DAA11999@asylum.asylum.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950609014303.18827A-100000@barney> from "VyacheslavS. Rozman" at Jun 9, 95 01:45:58 am
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> I am using PPP account, and sometimes it is very difficult to connect to
> the server because the line is busy. I have to redial many times. I would
> greately appreciate it if someone could help me to establish an
> automatic redial feature.
Here is a script I use. I have changed the domain name for the ping, and
my /etc/ppplogin is a script that uses chat to call the provider and
establish connection. Run it from cron every so often.
The following is very simple but seems to be working fine.
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#!/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
LOGFILE=/var/log/ppp.log
export PATH LOGFILE
if [ `ping -c 5 Domain | grep "packet loss" | awk '{ print $4 }'` -eq 0 ];then
kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
sleep 15
/etc/ppplogin
echo "pppd restarted" >> $LOGFILE
fi
exit
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