From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 5 16:27:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24885 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (spacehog.structured.net [206.58.33.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24877 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spacehog.structured.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00487; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:29:07 GMT Message-ID: <33BE1E28.2FADB74D@spacehog.structured.net> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 10:12:56 +0000 From: Justin Ashworth Reply-To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Organization: Pretty cruddy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01b6C [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Dorfman CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd Auto-reconnect? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707051451.KAA00233@deimos.senate.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nathan Dorfman wrote: > > Is it possible to have pppd reconnect automatically? > ............ Yup. I have "/usr/sbin/ppp -ddial sns" in my /etc/rc.local. It dials when I boot up and will reconnect right away if disconnected. Of course, change sns in the line above to your ISP. If you want to see how the modem is doing, you can telnet to port 3000 on your machine. Later... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- You will be winged by an anti-aircraft battery.