1. The command "pppd demand call terra" will keep the thing connected 24/7 and redial if the link is dropped. However, if for some reason the line is down for a few hours pppd will give up and quietly die. Then I need to log in as root and issue a "pppd demand call terra" command again. How can I tell pppd to NEVER die, to just fight on forever and keep trying?
I travel a lot, and if this happens when I travel my wife is SOL since she (wisely) refuses to mess with the firewall and of course, at that point I cannot reach the system remotely. Can pppd be told to do this, or must I cook up a cron job that somehow checks for the pppd daemon to exist and issues the right command if it has died? (If the latter, any suggestions on checking for pppd's existence?)
2. When I do issue a "pppd demand call terra", sometimes it dials instantly and sometimes it sits there for a few minutes (one, sometimes three, sometimes five) before actually dialing the modem. Where could this wait time possibly be coming from? I've read _everything_ I can get my hands on and have no idea...
Thanks!
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