John F. Woods said:

>So, my plan is to modify pppd to record current status of the connection in
>a file, which can be checked by some tiny server application.  Has anyone
>implemented anything like this, and/or does anyone else find it potentially
>useful?

You might want to look at:

ftp://ftp.rmkhome.com/pub/rmk/ppp-monitor.c

It's a little daemon that restarts PPP if it can't send an ECHO
through to the other side. It does keep a log file.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com