Re: diald problem
On 21-May-99 David B.Teague wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>
>> I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed
>> on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config
>> files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff.
>
>> Anyhow, when my ISP drops me during long downloads, I am allowed
>> to come right back, and diald took care of this for me until
>> now, because I lost the diald.options file I was using. There
>> is an option (I have checked the man pages but cannot find it)
>> that I had set to four seconds so that if I get disconnected, I
>> come back in 4 seconds, not 30. Anyone know what that option
>> is? I have redial-timeout, but that does not seem to be it. I
>> am doing lots of this stuff by trial and error.
>
> Pollywog
>
> Did you get an answer to this?
>
> I do not use diald, but there are option under ppp that may
> help you, so on the off chance that this will do you some
> good, I'm sending it on.
>
> My system reconnects if the line is dropped for a couple of
> minutes. I looked in my /etc/ppp/peers/provider and found the last
> command is persist.
>
> Here are items from the pppd man page, and from /etc/ppp/options.
> Can these be used to detect disconnect and after 4 seconds effect
> reconnect?
>
>>From the man 8 pppd page:
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> lcp-echo-failure n
> If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer
> to be dead if n LCP echo-requests are sent without
> receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. If this happens,
> pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this
> option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-
> interval parameter. This option can be used to
> enable pppd to terminate after the physical connec-
> tion has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up)
> in situations where no hardware modem control lines
> are available.
>
> lcp-echo-interval n
> If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP
> echo-request frame to the peer every n seconds.
> Normally the peer should respond to the echo-
> request by sending an echo-reply. This option can
> be used with the lcp-echo-failure option to detect
> that the peer is no longer connected.
>
> I find these settings in the /etc/ppp/options file:
>
># If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to
># the peer every n seconds. Under Linux, the echo-request is sent when
># no packets have been received from the peer for n seconds.
># Normally the peer should respond to the echo-request by sending an
># echo-reply. This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure
># option to detect that the peer is no longer connected.
> lcp-echo-interval 30
>
># If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n
># LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply.
># If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this
># option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-interval parameter.
># This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical
># connection has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in
># situations where no hardware modem control lines are available.
> lcp-echo-failure 4
>
> --David
> David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
> Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
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> (Hoping this is useful!)
>
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