Re: bad modem?
Robert Mognet writes:
> Perhaps you have the 'persist' option in your /etc/ppp/peers/provider
> file (it may be named something else) set. The code you included is a
> 'ping' to keep the connection going.
No it isn't. It has nothing to do with 'persist'. From /etc/ppp/options:
# 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
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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