On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm back at school for the fall now, and I'm back to having a full-time > 10-Base-T connection. I'd like my machine to use this as a default > instead of the diald/ppp link I used all summer from home. The problem is > that our campus ethernet is sometimes plagued by power outages, so I > don't want to simply remove diald and ppp, besides that I don't want to > have to reinstall them at winter break and again next spring. > > So, is there a way to enable diald and ppp but set it up so that the ppp > link isn't used unless it's either needed or specifically requested? I'd > like to make the ethernet link the default... > > I don't know much about unix network configurations, so anything anyone > can suggest is appreciated. >
Coincidentally, earlier today I uploaded a .deb of PPPupd which you may find useful. PPPupd is a simple daemon which as the name suggests was designed for keeping a PPP connection alive. It pings a host you specify at regular intervals (every minute by default.) The way I packaged it, PPPupd runs pon and poff to automatically to bring back a disconnected PPPxonnection. But it is very configurable. You could use it to ping the other end of your ethernet connection and if the ping fails, it could run a script that starts up diald. When the ethernet connection comes back up, it would kill diald. As I said I just uploaded it today so it will be a short while before it shows up on mirrors. In the mean time you can get the .deb and source from http://www.braincells.com/pub/debian/Local . -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
