Yep - taht's what the scripts that Bill Studenmund & I have put up on
ftp.macbsd.com use.

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Steve Carlson wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

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