On 13-Jul-99 Denis Voitenko wrote:
> This might be a silly question but here is the thing. I have to keep a
> box online 24 hours a day 7 days a week with an ISP that tends to drop
> connections once in a while (Erols, USA). What would be the best way to
> do it? So far I have only two ideas: Diald and fixing ppp-down script to
> dial up as soon as the connection goes down. Any ideas?
Don't bother with the overhead of diald for this, just put the ppp-up script in
/etc/inittab - eg. (from our gateway slackware box)
---
# keep modem connection alive
pu:3:respawn:/usr/sbin/ppp-on
---
We have had the gateway configured like this for the last 3 1/2 years, with no
problems. Essentially, as soon as init notices that the connection has been
dropped, it is respawned. Downtime is on the order of 30 seconds including
redialing, and reconnecting (the process is respawned almost instantly). Make
sure that you add '-detach' to the end of your pppd parameters, otherwise pppd
will keep respawning over and over.
Richard Waid.
Network Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 021 636 661
iOpen Technologies Ltd.
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