From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 09:48:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05802 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 09:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from 208.16.24.125 (pn8-ppp-125.primary.net [208.16.24.125] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA05765 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 09:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y) Received: from w3svcs.mfn.org (unverified [204.238.179.11]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Mon, 11 May 1998 01:48:04 -0500 Received: by w3svcs.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BD7C7E.92E66C60@w3svcs.mfn.org>; Mon, 11 May 1998 01:46:10 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD7C7E.92E66C60@w3svcs.mfn.org> From: x To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Persistent Mode pppd Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 01:34:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, Another task for the native gurus... These issues are all on 2.2.5R. (1) The Complete FreeBSD states there is a "demand" option in /etc/ppp/options. I am able to use "persist", but not "demand". I believe this is a doc error, and will forward this to the appropriate folks upon confirmation. (2) The persist option on works is the pppd daemon is *successful* on it's attempt to reconnect. If the chat script fails for some reason, it will cease all future efforts to re-establish the ppp connection. Is there a way around this behaviour? (3) The CHAT page says to see UUCP for more info on chat scripting. UUCP tells me to see CHAT! WTF? (4) Regardless of #3, the scripting engine is not very reliable, which is what brought about #2. Just to recap what I actually *need*... How do I force pppd to continue trying to reestablish a connection, no matter what - forever if need be? J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message