On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:16:01 +0100, Alson van der Meulen writes: >On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:54PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: >> Hello, >> I am running a little server on a xDSL connection.
Geez, who not ;-) ? >> It worked fine, until I was not able to connect to the server today. >> After some examination of the logs, I found this in /var/log/messages: >> pppd[90]: No response to 4 echo-requests >> pppd[90]: Serial link appears to be disconnected >> pppd[90]: Connection terminated. >> (blabla) cron is fine for that, for example: * * * * * /bin/ping -c 1 193.154.142.1 >/dev/null || \ /usr/local/bin/reconnect >/dev/null reconnect just kills all pppd´s (JIC) and all pptp´s (my dsl-connection is over pptp <sigh>). works just fine. >> So it seems that the connection has been lost somehow. >> Now my question: >> Is it possible that when something like this happens, pppd will >> automatically reconnect? In that case, my down time will be minimized >> after such resets. &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
