Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the "health" of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and disconnects to do this, so I have no easy way to determine WHEN the link is up (I delete the eth default route and add a ppp0 default route only once the dial-link is up, or that's the plan). Right now I have to use sleep and that's plain ugly (and doesn't always work when the dial server is cranky).
So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it ... Any ideas? Am I re-inventing a wheel? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
