Re: restarting pppd automatically
On 28/12/2020 09:34, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 23:56 +0000, Graham Seaman wrote:
>> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
>> My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
>> get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime).
> I know this is not what you asked for, and may not work for your use
> case, but how about just preventing pppd stopping in the first place?
> For my system that I set up 10 years ago and is still running, the
> notes I wrote at the time say this:
>
> Edit /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider to add a line saying "maxfail 0";
> after the 'persist' entry is a good place. This should stop pppd
> from timing out when it can't connect.
>
> I did that so my internet connection came back up when the modem
> reconnected after an outage.
>
That seems to work fine and is a nice simple solution. At any rate, it
works when I just yank the cable out temporarily; now to leave it for a
while to see if it works with the real problem too (maybe a week or two
before I know).
Thank you!
Graham
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