Re: stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Philip Hands wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> How do I get pppd to block totally when this happens. Ideally this >> should stop pppd from dialing at all till someone manually restarts >> it. > >Use diald to maintain the link, and set dial-fail-limit: Use dctrl as a front-end to co

Re: stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-31 Thread Philip Hands
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How do I get pppd to block totally when this happens. Ideally this > should stop pppd from dialing at all till someone manually restarts > it. Use diald to maintain the link, and set dial-fail-limit: DIALD(8) DIALD(8)

stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
hi, I've got a Linux Router Project (Debian based) box running a permanent connection to the 'net via a 57.6 modem. I'm using pppd in persist mode and a few weeks ago over the weekend the account ran out of credits at the ISP so they disabled the account. The box rang the ISP every minute or so