RE: pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic 
[cc'ing the list again]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 03:46, Ian Perry wrote:
> Excellent !!

glad to be of service :)

> I had tailored pppupd to check every 30 mins (to keep the phone bill down
> when the ISP goes tropical).  I am guessing I can use "holdoff" for this
> function.

Have a look at the demand option:  Initiate the link only on demand,
i.e. when data traffic is present.

> -Original Message-
> From: Mario Vukelic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 1:15 PM
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: pppupd... where has it gone ?
> 
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:40, Ian Perry wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3.
> > 
> > Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take
> care
> > of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ?
> 
> man pppd:
> 
> persist
> Do  not  exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen
> the connection. The maxfail option still has an effect on persistent
> connections.
> 
> maxfail n
> Terminate after n consecutive failed connection attempts.  A value of 0
> means no limit.The default value is 10.
> 


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Re: pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas 
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ian Perry wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3.
>

Wow that's a blast from the past.  pppupd was the first package I
maintained for Debian back in 1997.

> Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care
> of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ?
>

Yes.  That's why pppupd was removed back in the potato era.

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Re: pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Mario Vukelic 
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:40, Ian Perry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3.
> 
> Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care
> of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ?

man pppd:

persist
Do  not  exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen
the connection. The maxfail option still has an effect on persistent
connections.

maxfail n
Terminate after n consecutive failed connection attempts.  A value of 0
means no limit.The default value is 10.


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pppupd... where has it gone ?

2004-01-27 Thread Ian Perry 
Hi,

I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3.

Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care
of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ?

Thanks

Ian



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