On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 01:40:19PM -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote:
> I have been successfully using DialD and masquerading to provide dial-up
> service to my ISP. The only trouble I have is if, for some reason, the
> host drops the connection. Once this occurs, DialD will no longer bring
> up PPP properly, even though "trigger" messages still appear in
> /var/log/messages, and the only option I have is to kill diald and
> restart it.
>
> Is this something I need to fix with my diald configuration or is this a
> ppp problem? I'm considering the use of "persist" in the file
> /etc/ppp/options but I'm not sure if that's what I really want.
This sounds like a problem that existed in some of the 0.99.x versions
of diald. What version are you using?
BTW, you really don't want to use persist in your pppd. Read the
documentation a little more closely :)
From the pppd(8) man page
persist
Do not exit after a connection is terminated;
instead try to reopen the connection.
This would keep the connection constantly open. If you wanted this
behaviour you wouldn't be using diald.
Tim
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