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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, justin wrote:
> What I would like to do right now, however, is guarantee that anytime, anyday,
>barring a problem with my ISP, that my box is connected to the internet. I have it
>currently setup to dial the internet when it boots and that seems, so far to work ok.
>My problem you ask? My ISP implements a 5 minute no transfer policy, they disconnect
>my connection after 5 minutes of 'idling'. What I would like to do is have some kind
>of check to verify if I am still connected to the internet and if not, execute it. I
>was thinking some type of script running from crontab every 5 minutes. If I am not
>connected, then automatically reconnect to the internet.
Read the ppp(8) manpage and you will discover the -ddial flag which
implements the functionality you have discussed. It would probably be
more advisable to use the -auto flag though, but that's your own
decision to make. Read the manpage.
This is really a -questions issue. Now you know, don't ask questions
like this here again, it's the wrong place for it. Read the mailing
list charters at:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
for more information.
Brandon D. Valentine
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