On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:37:53PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:58:13PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Hi Zach, > > > > In pppconfig its under advanced options: Persist yes, and demand yes if > > you want it. > > > > Otherwise, in /etc/ppp/peers/the-peer-you-use, > > add the lines > > persist > > demand > > > > > > Persist will redial your modem if the connection is lost, after it waits > > (called holdoff). See the pppd man page. > > Interesting ... according to the pppd man page: > > The demand option implies the persist option. If this > behaviour is not desired, use the nopersist option > after the demand option. The idle and holdoff > options are also useful in conjunction with the demand > option. > Yes. The persist option keeps a ppp0 device available for the demand option to watch for traffic requests. However, you can (I do) use persist without the demand option.
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