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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp auto redial after lost connection?
Date: 14 Feb 1997 05:19:51 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable mcurry@fred.net ( )
wrote on 14 Feb (in article <5e0hte$rg6@news.fred.net>):
=other things that you personally prefer. You grep the ping return for
=some unique string, and conditionally restart pppd (after killing the
=previous pppd process, which has to be identified by grepping the output
=of the ps -x command).
pppd rights down it's process id in /var/run/pppN.pid (N being the
number of the connection -- with one modem only, you'll have N=0).
So, to kill it, you need:
kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
Actually, most of the system daemons and other apps identify
themselves in that fashion -- you do not need to use ps in most
cases.
=Alternatively, and much to be preferred, is to use ijppp with the -ddial
=option. It will redial automatically on loss of carrier.
Someone has to put ijppp's loss-of-carrier detection into pppd, if it is
more reliable then current pppd's...
-mi
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