ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
A friend of mine who I recently converted to Debian is encountering a conceptual problem with the PPP package. He has a dynamic IP, but wants to keep his connection up as much as possible. So, since the Debian ppp options file includes the persist option by default, we thought we were okay. And

Re: ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread Daniel Martin
On 8 Dec 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: The problem is, we don't know where to call this script from :) I tried putting it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script, which ostensibly is called whenever ppp brings its connection up, but evidently is not called with the persist option. Well, are you sure that

Re: ip-up script in PPP package with 'persist' option

1997-12-08 Thread john
Ben Gertzfield writes: The problem is, we don't know where to call this script from :) I tried putting it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script, which ostensibly is called whenever ppp brings its connection up, but evidently is not called with the persist option. Is this a bug in the PPP package, or