If it needs traffic to bring up your tunnel you could try to add something like. && ping <some internet ip>
John -----Original Message----- From: Gertjan Kroeb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:20 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] redial pppoe by cron Concerning the proposed : > In the webgui go to Diagnostics>edit file and load /etc/crontab > Then add the following line: > * <reconnecthour> * * * root killall mpd && > /usr/local/sbin/mpd -b -d /var/etc -p /var/run/mpd.pid pptp > > Then save that file. Reboot to make sure the new settings are reloaded. > This is > not officially supported and I have not yet tried that myself but got that > information from Scott when I asked for that some time ago. I'm located in > germany too and I'm affected by the ugly 24h-disconnects too. This way you > can > make sure the reconnect doesn't appear during officehours or during > daytimes, > what can be pretty annoying if you use VoIP or VPN. > Please provide feedback if that works for you. Not sure if this will > handle > dyndnsupdates too (maybe Scott can comment in this). If you could test > that too > that would be great. > Holger The disconnection just works just great (normal : this is a sledge hammer approach) - however, this will not re-connect by itself ! (Maybe I didn't wait long enough.....) Gertjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
