Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> > I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script:
> >
> > ping -i 120 $5 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> ^
> |
> what is it? not found in man page
That is the remote IP. $5 is the "fifth command line variable"
when ip-up is called. It will turn into a real IP address when ip-up is
run correctly.
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