As far as I know, persist can take an argument as to how long to
wait between retries. Whilst wardialling^Wtesting a free ISP at home I was reckoning
on about four seconds being the absolute minimum you can get
away. any less than that and you get problems.
-Thom
At some point around Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:42:22 +1000, Dave Kempe said:
> >
> > Write the script anyway but as usual there's an easier way. If
> > you're talking about a permament connection and you want to make sure it
> > stays up, as long as you setup ppp correctly ie using a chat script. ie
> > to start your connection you can do something like
> > pppd call provider
> > then all you need todo is give ppp the persist option and it will dial
> > back in autimatically.
>
> I've had bad results with the persist option. It seems to try to reconnect
> before the modem is properly released and ends up stuck in a permanent
> looop.
> Is there a way to make the persist option wait a bit until the last pppd is
> finished?
>
> THanks to all those who helped me with cron, I think i can understand it a
> bit better now.
>
> thanks
>
> dave
>
>
>
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