On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:17:02AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 06:24 PM 8/11/00 +0200, Julien Stern wrote: > >Thanks to all for your answers. > >I actually have a dirty script which can figure out when the connexion > >is renewed and take actions (I have ADSL and my isp uses pptp > >over ppp. yeck...). > > > How are you doing this? Implementing something similar (for PPPoE) is an > upcoming project for me. Do you have a better solution than frequent > checking, cron-style? > Well, you saw the word 'dirty' above :) I'm actually checking regularly if the ppp daemon is still up. Not great, but it works. I don't know of any cleaner solution for pptp but maybe someone else does...
Julien
