In article <Pine.NEB.4.60.0406271510530.9829@chylonia.3miasto.net>,
	Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> writes:
> ping -c 3 <other side> || (kill -INT `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`;sleep 30;pppd call <nameoflink>)

I would recomment "ping -c -o 3 <other side>".

> bad news is that com/puc driver or pppd itself is even more broken on 1.6 
> and 2.0.

The com(4) driver was indeed broken in NetBSD 1.6 to 1.6.2 and the 2.0 branch
but has been fixed in both branches in April.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/