On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:14:13PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I have a situation which is well known to people - your machine is > connected (PPTP) to the net, but sometimes there's disconnection between > your home and ISP, but the PPP0 interface stays up, which means you'll > need to kill it and redial..
Add this to /etc/ppp/options: # Without the next 2 lines, pppd won't detect loss of connection, # because pppd regularely uses modem DTR line to detect connection drop, # and pptp doesn't have one. lcp-echo-interval 60 lcp-echo-failure 2 > I have a small script which deals with the situation where the PPP0 > interface is down, then it tries to connect until it connects, but my > script doesn't handle the situation above.. > > So, I was thinking - has anyone written such a script? (for PPTP > connection, not PPPOE) and willing to share it please? I used to use a hacked up version of http://www.hageltech.com/download/adsl-connect-0.1.tar.gz, but nowdays debian takes care of it automatically. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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