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From: doleh@hanina.alquds.org (Yaser Doleh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PPP Automatic Reconnect
Date: 5 Oct 1994 04:16:39 GMT
Organization: Alquds Organization
Lines: 67
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <36t9b7$8ti@gazpacho.wariat.org>
References: <36pcge$i9l@nic.hookup.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: alquds.org
In article <36pcge$i9l@nic.hookup.net>, dirk@caseware.com (Dirk Bach) writes:
|> I'm trying to setup PPP to automatically reconnect when the connection
|> drops. I was wondering if anyone had any scripts or ideas on how to do
|> this. I had slip setup to do this quite nicely, but for several
|> reasons, I need to run PPP.
|>
|> Any help would be appreciated.
|>
I have the following scripts
I run ppp-check every 5 minutes from cron.
#!/bin/sh
#
# ppp-check
#
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
ping -c 1 ppp-remote
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
exit 0
fi
/usr/local/etc/ppp-off
sleep 5
/usr/local/etc/ppp-on
exit 0
#!/bin/sh
#
# ppp-on
#
/usr/libexec/pppd modem crtscts defaultroute connect /usr/local/etc/ppp-call ppp 57600
#!/bin/sh
#
# ppp-off
#
pid=-1
if [ -f /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then
pid=`cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
fi
if [ -f /proc/$pid ]; then
kill $pid
exit 0
fi
exit 1
#!/bin/sh
#
# ppp-call
#
chat -v ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT BUSY "" ATZ\\d\\d OK AT\\d OK ATDT5551212 \
CONNECT "" ogin xxx assword: xxxx >/dev/ppp </dev/ppp
|> - D
|>
|> Dirk Bach (dirk@caseware.com)
|> WK Information Systems Ltd.
|> 70 Richmond St. E #400
|> Toronto, ON
|> M5C 1N8
--
Very truly yours
Yaser Doleh
doleh@alquds.org