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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!loch.in-brb.de!bluesprings.in-brb.de!not-for-mail From: nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Userland PPP - can it redial? Date: 3 May 1996 06:22:46 +0200 Organization: Brandenburg Individual Network e.V. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4mc1mm$juf@bluesprings.in-brb.de> References: <uf20l3udvv.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bluesprings.in-brb.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Martin Ibert (martini@heaven7.snafu.de) wrote: : can I make the user-land ppp stuff redial all by itself? I am not : using auto mode because a) I'm afraid of some random processes Perhaps there is a chance in your dial-string: If you insert !<command>, you can control your line from an outer program. for instance: set dial " \"\" AT OK TIMEOUT 360 \!/usr/local/bin/dingdong \"\" " and "dingdong" is a program, which talks to your modem: every BUSY invokes a new call to a new telephonenumber (for instance). on a CONNECT you go back to ppp through exit(0); Lars.