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From: seth_leigh@dtint.com (Seth Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp auto redial after lost connection?
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:40:06 -0800
Organization: Digital Technology International, Inc.
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I had the opposite problem.

My machine would maintain the connection forever, even though I had set it
up to time out after 5 minutes of inactivity.  I tracked down the
offending requests, and discovered that even though I didn't do anything
myself, some sort of traffic went out every 30 seconds.  After a lot more
reading, I discovered that my options I sent to 'routed' were set to -s
(or -q, I think I could be backwards in my memory), which made routed
broadcast its routing info every 30 seconds.  This meant that I had at
most 30 seconds of network inactivity before my machine broadcast its
routing info to the machine at my ISP on the other end of the modem, and
so it of course never timed out.  I changed the option to -q, which
doesn't broadcast the routing info, and now my machine really does time
out the connection after 5 minutes of inactivity.  If your routed
currently is not broadcasting routing info, I might guess that changing it
to do so might cause your machine to redial no longer than 30 seconds
after the connection is lost.  Try it out.

Read the man pages for routed, because I may have the two options (-s and
-q) backwards in my head.  I made the change in the routed options in the
/etc/sysconfig file.  This has been an official SWAG, so no derision if it
doesn't work. ;-)

In article <330379AD.41C6@urc.tue.nl>, Peter Benschop <rcbapb@urc.tue.nl> wrote:

> I am using a permanent ppp connection over a serial line. However the
> modem on the other side of the line is reset every 24 hours and the
> connection is lost. Is there an easy solution to make ppp redial after a
> lost connection? It redials automatically when _I_ make a request, but
> the outside world can't enable the connection, so nobody can gain access
> to my computer when I'm not there and the connection is lost.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter.

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