Hi,

I myself haven't quite figured out the whole pppd thing but wouldn't 
setting the lcp-echo-interval to a reasonable amount and setting the 
"disconnect" option in the /etc/options file to a script that would kill
the current pppd and exec ppp-up do the same thing?

--
Steve Carlson
stevec@accessone.com

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Brian Andresen wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, synapse wrote:
> 
> > i was wondering if the ppp scripts on the macbsd.com server were "smart"
> > and redialed when disconnected (by remote connection, or modem shut off,
> 
> Somewhat following a suggestion on netbsd-help (or netbsd-users?)  and
> somewhat hacking on my own, I've pieced together a "pppd daemon".  I guess
> that would be "pppdd".  ;-) 
> 
> #!/bin/csh
> 
> while (1)
>     set p=`/usr/local/bin/newping -o -c 3 198.93.80.102 |& grep -c route`
>     if ( $p != 0 ) then
>         # It's down!
>         echo "IP link down - restarting PPP" >> /var/log/ppp
>         set p=`cd /proc; grep -l '^pppd' */status`
>         if ( $p != "" ) then
>                 kill `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid`
>         endif
>         sleep 3
>         stty -f /dev/tty00 clocal
>         pppd
>     endif
>     sleep 900
> end