Re: Redialing ppp

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 16 Oct, David J. Kanter wrote about "Redialing ppp"
> How do I set up pon to redial if the telephone number is busy? There are

Add 

holdoff 1
persist 

to your ppp options file(see the man page for pppd for details).  If you
used pppconfig then that would be in your /etc/ppp/peers directory and
the default name of the options file is 'provider'.  This also has the
benefit of redialling if you get terminated by the other end, like for
connection time limits which most ISP's use.

Brian Servis
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