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Re: Keepalive!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Shaw)
Wed Nov 6 00:49:04 1996

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 21:46:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Shaw <rshaw@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
To: RedHat-List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961105222212.1768B-100000@madq80.com>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996 redhat-list@madq80.com wrote:

> 	Have anyone figure ouyt , how to get the keeplaive script to work
> for a static PPP connection? I tried that one I use to use in Slakware,
> but for somereason it didn't work! so please help me if you got it to
> work, or got any workable script that will get if the connections is
> alive, and if it's not, it will execute ppp-on to bring it up.

have you thought about looking into the diald package?  i believe it is
available in the contrib directory at any redhat site.  i know it's on
sunsite for sure.

diald can be configured to either keep your connection alive or provide
connectivity on demand.

it's a very nice program.


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