On 15-May-98 Chris Frost wrote:
> Using rh5's netcfg I setup pppd to always stay connected. However, after
> examinging my logs recently, about every 40 seconds pppd does a bunch of
> work. I was wondering if this ate any cpu time, and it does! A lot! It
> also clogs up /var/log/messages, which is just about as bad (makes looking
> for odd things a lot harder). Is there any way to set a ppp link to
> reconnected *only* when the connection is lost? I would think it would do
> this by default, but it doesn't.
Something else is wrong. netcfg does this by default. Use 'ps -axf' to find the
list of processes associated with that netcfg or pppd, and kill them, or use
something like 'killall pppd' then try starting over.
Dave
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