On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Phillip Simbwa <[email protected]> wrote:

> ...
>
> 1. Install any smpppd utility (my favorite is wvdial). (You may need to
> zypper/yum/apt-get depending on your distro)
> 2.  If you are using wvdial, follow this:
> http://support.real-time.com/linux/dialup/wvdial.html#configure
>
>
I have a laptop running Ubuntu Lucid with a USB modem running wvdial as my
gateway, and the thing has had uptimes of > 45 days with the connection rock
solid almost the whole time.

I use the attached wvdial init script (copy to /etc/init.d/).

Then I add the following line to /etc/crontab:
* * * * *   root    service wvdial status || service wvdial start

That will check every minute to make sure wvdial is still running and start
it if it isn't.

It's a rock solid setup for me.

David

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