From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 11:56:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD2F151BE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA05471; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:56:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:56:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: Mike Urban Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically redialing internet connection? In-Reply-To: <375D6553.FDD2ABA@webzone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like what you want is 'ppp -ddial'. 'man 8 ppp' for more details. On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mike Urban wrote: # I am going to be running a server that will have a full time connection # to the internet via a modem and dedicated line. My question is this: Is # there a simple way for me to set it up so that it will monitor the modem # and automatically restart the connection if it detects a disconnect? The # server will be accepting incoming requests, so simply setting it up to # dial whenever the connection is needed is not good enough. # # Basically what I need is something that can monitor the modem, and # automatically restart the connection if it dies.. Could this be done # through a simple shell script maybe? Please try to explain in relativly # simple terms as I am pretty new to FreeBSD and UNIX in general. Any help # would be greatly appreciated. # # Thanks, # # Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message