Re: dialup connectivity problem

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:37:53PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:58:13PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Hi Zach,

In pppconfig its under advanced options: Persist yes, and demand yes if
you want it.

Otherwise, in /etc/ppp/peers/the-peer-you-use,
add the lines
persist
demand


Persist will redial your modem if the connection is lost, after it waits
(called holdoff). See the pppd man page.

Interesting ... according to the pppd man page:

The demand option implies the persist option. If this
behaviour is not desired, use the nopersist option
after the demand option. The idle and holdoff
options are also useful in conjunction with the demand
option.

Yes. The persist option keeps a ppp0 device available for the demand
option to watch for traffic requests. However, you can (I do) use
persist without the demand option.

Doug.


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