Re: Automating PPP with cron?

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	On this topic, why not try diald? Instead of keeping my ppp on
 all the time, I have made t so that I never need know whether I am
 connected or not. I just send mail, start a ftp session, or lynx, or
 query dns -- and the connection is brought up seemlessly.

	I go to the other extreme -- a couple of minutes of idle ppp
 causes a disconnect. I only use as much of bandwidth as I need -- and
 I also remove most of the bother of ppp connections.

	manoj
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