Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!
Hmmmm... Well, that's news to me. I wasn't aware that pppd would redial. I
thought that it just called whatever command that you gave it to connect
and that was it. I know that chat is only as smart as the script you give
it, so I just worked up my own redial script to use for the pppd connect
command, and it just repeats the chat command until it exits with a status
that indicates that it got through the whole script. I don't have it
reestablish a connection after it drops though, because I don't always
want my connection up regardless.
Shawn
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> [Now over the next day, I'll get about 10 bounces. Can someone fix the
> flippin' list? How about an Errors-to: header? ]
>
> On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
>
> > Cool off, man. What they seem to be talking about IS a Debian issue.
> > Although ppp support IS compiled into the kernel, the pppd is separate,
> > and the method by which you establish a connection, be it through pon, or
> > a custom script like I use, because as far as I know pon will not redial
>
> Hmm.. Better not tell that to my system. pppd keeps redialing until it
> gets connected..
>
>
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