Robert Mognet writes: > Perhaps you have the 'persist' option in your /etc/ppp/peers/provider > file (it may be named something else) set. The code you included is a > 'ping' to keep the connection going.
No it isn't. It has nothing to do with 'persist'. From /etc/ppp/options: # If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to # the peer every n seconds. Under Linux, the echo-request is sent when # no packets have been received from the peer for n seconds. Normally # the peer should respond to the echo-request by sending an echo-reply. # This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure option to detect # that the peer is no longer connected. lcp-echo-interval 30 # If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n # LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. # If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this # option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-interval parameter. # This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical # connection has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in # situations where no hardware modem control lines are available. lcp-echo-failure 4 -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
