Got no responses, and haven't found the answer on my own either after a week, so I am reposting an earlier question. Anyone care to comment?
The basic question is: how can I tell pppd to redial until hell freezes over, and NEVER stop trying to reestablish the connection? The "persist" parameter quits after 10 hang-ups.
Thanks!
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: pppd does not persist enough, gives up after 10 attempts Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:59:49 -0600
Hopefully someone has a clue-by-four with which to hit me on this one. I have an RHL-9 box (Shrike) with all updates and ppp-2.4.1-10 installed. This box is properly configured to dial out to my ISP on an ISDN line (external modem via serial port), and works beautifully in all ways but one: if pppd experiences 10 hang-ups, it exits and does not restart. Here are the relevant files:
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### /etc/ppp/peers/terra
demand persist ttyS1 crtscts 115200 user 'rpaiz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx' connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/terra-chat'
### /etc/ppp/peers/terra-chat
TIMEOUT 5 ABORT '\nBUSY\r' ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' '' '\rAT' 'OK-+++\C-OK' ATH TIMEOUT 60 OK AT OK ATB40E1\&H3\&J3Q0X5 OK ATDT4709999 CONNECT ''
### /etc/rc.d/rc.local #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
pppd call terra touch /var/lock/subsys/local
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As you can see, both the "demand" and "persist" options have been specified and in fact work as advertised... up until pppd sees that 10th hangup. Then, it's gone.
Can anyone tell me how to instruct pppd in the fine art of redialing until hell freezes over? I don't want it to *ever* be off-line for more than the 2 seconds it takes to redial. And it's disturbing to go away on business, then not be able to connect back to the house because pppd got bored.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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