From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 17:51:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA01118 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:51:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (root@proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01113 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA18244; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:34:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:32:11 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: Nat Low cc: RPD , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic re-dial In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Nat Low wrote: > 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. An even easier way would be use fetchmail in the daemon mode. It's also very easy to change to time interval and stop the porcess when it's no longer needed. It's available in the Ports collection. FYI, it can check more than 1 remote email account. :) For more info check the man page for fetchmail. > > 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. > >