Re: pppd problem -- modem *not* disconnecting when connection lost.

[Carl V Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>]

Mark W. Eichin writes:
> 
> 
> > Where www.sgi.com is someone on the net with a solid connection.  If they
> > are inaccessible, the script will kill and revive the connection.  
> 
> umm, *NO*. That's just the wrong thing to do (and unreliable as well.)
> (The killing is fine, I'm just arguing the choice of target host.)
> 
> If you're testing for the connection being "wedged" somehow, please,
> it's easy enough to find the address of your provider, right? 

ifconfig | perl -ne 'if(/P-t-P:(.*?)\s/){print "$1\n"}'

assuming you only have one "point to point" connection.

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