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From: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net>
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To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
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Subject: Re: I want PPP to stay up all the time
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Kenneth Ingham wrote:

> OS: FreeBSD 2.1.
> 
> I'm have a full-time (modem) ppp connection to the internet.  I'd like the  
> link to stay up all the time.  What happens now with both kernel and 
user PPP  
> is that if the link drops (i.e. due to a noisy phone line), it stays down.

Have you tried the -auto switch to user ppp? This is how I maintain a 
full-time link to the net.

	ppp -auto <provider>

Works fine.

> Kenneth Ingham
> ingham@i-pi.com

Frank
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