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Re: PPP Line disconnected.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Apr 18 03:13:07 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 02:23:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Jeff Sinason <jsinason@itdcomm.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960416184139.106A-100000@itdcomm.com>
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Jeff Sinason wrote:
> I have a PPP connection that I keep up all the time. Recently, the line
> dropped and the connection was broken. Is there anyway to monitor the
> connection and bring it back up?
>
> I'm using a chat script to make the initial connection, and was wondering
> if it was possible to track the pppd id?
Call pppd from a shell script using -detach. Call this shell script from
init. When pppd terminates, the script follows, then respawns from init.
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