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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!istar.net!news1.ottawa.istar.net!fonorola!news.ottawa.istar.net!milkyway.com!not-for-mail From: mcr@metis.milkyway.com (Michael Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting PPP Links up and Running Date: 11 Jan 1996 12:36:22 -0500 Organization: Milkyway Networks Corporation, Ottawa, ON Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4d3hqm$hc5@metis.milkyway.com> References: <4btgbk$plv@cynic.portal.ca> <4c4b7p$7u8_001@dialupS165.ici.net> <4c4ekf$75v@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: metis.milkyway.com In article <4c4ekf$75v@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca> wrote: >1.1 it works pretty well. You do have to recompile your kernel, >since the default generic kernel doesn't seem to include PPP (at >least on the i386), but assuming you can find the disk space for It did for me. I recompiled anyway because my AST card is not configured by default, and I have no COM1-3. >goes down (or I missed something somewhere). I've currently got a >sort of belt-and-suspenders system that starts a new pppd after a >short delay as as the disconnect script, and a shell script that Uh, I just have a shell script that does: while true do pppd ... sleep 10 done The sleep is just to keep my modem from being worn out if something bad happened on the other end. I put "-detach" to keep pppd from forking. -- :!mcr!: | <A HREF="http://www.milkyway.com/">Milkyway Networks Corporation</A> Michael Richardson | Makers of the Black Hole firewall NCF: aa714 || xx714 | +1 613 566-4574 ... mcr@milkyway.com Home: <A HREF="http://www.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/Bio.html">mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca</A>. PGP key available.