Remind me to give you the keepalive script I wrote. It's shellscript that backs off exponentially with the redials so it will not keep trying every couple of minutes. Gets up to 6 hours between tries then starts at every 2 minutes again. Used particularly when RH7.1 broke their pppwatch setup.
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, David Fitch wrote: > what do people use these days to keep their modem permanently > connected? diald, wvdial with the "auto reconnect" option or > just pppd's "persist" option? or something else? > > I want a way to limit redial attempts though, something like: > max redials of X within Y mins/hours so if there's a problem > at the other end and I get kicked off after 5 mins I don't > end up redialing 288 times in a day (at a cost of $57 in calls). > > Dave. > > -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
