From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 2:46:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.francenet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0FB37B405 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (prov42.dialup.fluxus.net [193.149.102.42]) by logatome.francenet.fr (8.10.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7C9k3664443; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:46:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 227A4E6BCA; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:40:23 +0200 (CEST) To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "Nick Rogness" , Subject: Re: DSL connectivity & ISDN backup References: <004701c12162$86b05820$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> From: Eric Masson In-Reply-To: <004701c12162$86b05820$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> ("Ted Mittelstaedt"'s message of "Thu, 9 Aug 2001 23:05:59 -0700") X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE i386 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:40:22 +0200 Message-ID: <86k80939bt.fsf@notbsdems.nantes.kisoft-services.com> Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Mittelstaedt writes: [ Snip bad backup experiences ] Ted> Further investigation found that the phone company had hosed up Ted> the PVC internally somewhere in their cloud - only problem is that Ted> at both ends (ours and theirs) the Telco was still merrily Ted> advertising the DLCI. Joys of work with telcos, I imagine ;). [Snip new keyword in ppp(8) configuration file ] Ted> Eric - sign me up as one of your beta testers. :-) Even if I see the logic to use, it's far over the top for me to code. Ted> Only problem I can see is how does PPP know when the main circuit Ted> is back online? Does it keep redialing periodically or what? ppp(8) on a DSL line is usually invoked with -ddial, that makes it keep dialing when the line goes down. I've been contacted offlist about the linkup & linkdown scripts (I use them on my current setup to flush mail queue & get news), the trick would be to launch a new ppp(8) instance in auto mode when the DSL link goes down and to kill this instance when the dsl line goes up via ppp.linkdown & ppp.linkup. I'll try this setup ASA the DSL line is installed at the office. Thanks to all who responded Regards Eric Masson -- A part ça, moi qui suis habitués aux PC Windows, PC Linux, PC SCO, Atari, IBM RS/6000, SUN Sparc, ... j'ai été un peu dérouté au début. Enfin, je m'amuse beaucoups avec... plus que mon père. -+- KEL in Guide du Macounet Pervers : Et la lumière fut -+- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message