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I am using DIP 3.3.7o-uri under LINUX kernal 2.0.0 for my dialup ISP
connections.

 I have connection failures on the average of every 3 hours on one
connection due apparently to noisy phone lines (the other ISP has a full
digital connection at their site, usually stays up for a couple days at
a time).

 Is there some way to configure DIP to redial a connection that has gone
down on it's own?

 If not, is there a functional equivilent that I can replace DIP with
that WILL do redial upon connection failure?

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 Brice D. Fleckenstein
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I use pppd, and have init respawn it if it dies.  I found this method
in an issue of Linux Journal, and it works very well.

1. Configure pppd to make your connection, so all you have to type on
the command line is /usr/sbin/pppd. Read the pppd man pages for
details.

2. Add this to /etc/inittab:
        pd:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/pppd

3. Type init q to re-read inittab.  If you did it right, your modem
should start dialing out, and when it dies, pppd will restart the
connection.

Note: add -detach to /etc/ppp/options, so pppd doesnt fork into the
background...otherwise init will keep spawning ppp sessions.

Hope it works for you as well as it does for me.

Chris

Quote:> If not, is there a functional equivilent that I can replace DIP with
>that WILL do redial upon connection failure?