Yeah - that happens to me too occassionally.  I just run a cron job that
kills and restarts pppd twice a day (noon & midnite).  There's something
in pppd that isn't quite right... 

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, William R. Dickson wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > That's a pretty easy thing to do - just add "persist" to the
> > /etc/ppp/options file.
> 
> "persist" doesn't quite work for me.  My connection drops once or twice a
> day (crappy modem or crappy phone line, not sure which).  For 2-4 days,
> pppd works as expected and the "persist" option detects the failure and
> brings the connection back up.  But eventually, there comes a point where
> the connection starts going up and down like a yo-yo; up for a couple
> seconds, then down until persist decides to bring it back up, repeat ad
> infinitum.  So I'm going back to the old ttys trick for the time being, as
> described in the FAQ.  Anybody else seen behavior like this?
> 
> -Bill
> 
> > 
> > > > I'm trippling the README, and breaking it up. PAP & CHAP will be
> > > > described. And the ppp-debug script's getting fixed too (it was from
> > > > the dod kit, and needed sprucing up a little).
> > > 
> > > How about making ppp detect when it has been disconnected and reconnect
> > > (as a command line option to ppp maybe?) automatically?  Could be included
> > > in the redial....  I dunno, just my 2 cents.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -Greg Evans (gevans@televar.com)
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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