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From: Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic re-dial
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To keep my connection established, I have a cron job that checks my mail 
every 10 minutes with popclient.  If you setup ppp or pppd to dial on 
demand, this checking of mail will cause the connection to re-open if it 
gets dropped.  The max down-time would be 10 minutes, but you could make 
the cron job run at lesser intervals.

Instead of checking your mail, you could have cron run ping sending one 
packet to a host in the outside world, thereby causing ppp or pppd to 
re-establish your connection automatically.

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, RPD wrote:

> I was wondering if there is a way to make ppp or pppd automatic redial if
> there is a disconnection.
> 
> 
> Thankz
> Ryan Duda
> 
> 
>