Re: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

Hi Raymond, I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies. I got another approach than using inittab/respawn. You simple could do a tail -f onto /var/log/messages and then search for a specific string. The search is done by awk in my case. I use that method for all kinds of

Re: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

Perhaps someone could inform me of the proper manner of restarting pppd when it does die. As it is, I do not know how to manually restart a connection that has died. I've tried '/usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider eth0' and that will not reestablish my connection. Restarting the inetd script

Re: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 04:02 schrieb Raymond Page: Perhaps someone could inform me of the proper manner of restarting pppd when it does die. As it is, I do not know how to manually restart a connection that has died. I've tried '/usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider eth0' and that will not

RE: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

This script is a really good idea. I'd still like to know how to setup the pppd to be run from initrd and the inittab file. Does anyone on the list have a rather specific idea on how to do this? I tried changing the options to have '-detach' and then disabling auto ppp0 in interfaces and

RE: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies. snipalot Just respawning the pppd is not sufficient, I had times when pppd ran and the ppp0 interface was visible but did not have an IP address. IMHO the pppd should be changed that so it never quits, doesn't run twice on the

RE: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

Alex At 09:02 11.12.2003 +0100, you wrote: I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies. snipalot Just respawning the pppd is not sufficient, I had times when pppd ran and the ppp0 interface was visible but did not have an IP address. IMHO the pppd should be changed that

RE: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

At 09:02 11.12.2003 +0100, you wrote: I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies. snipalot Just respawning the pppd is not sufficient, I had times when pppd ran and the ppp0 interface was visible but did not have an IP address. IMHO the pppd should be

Re: [leaf-user] pppoe internet connection terminates -- howto restart/redial

On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:56 pm, Alex Rhomberg wrote: At 09:02 11.12.2003 +0100, you wrote: I'm curious how to get pppd to auto redial when my connection dies. snipalot Just respawning the pppd is not sufficient, I had times when pppd ran and the ppp0 interface was