Thanks, I am using the same /etc/rc.conf method, but without demand -
they ar permanent connections. It is the "fault situations" that I am
trying to plan for - line faults, pppd dropouts etc - which occur over
long periods of unattended uptime. As I see it at the moment, a
monitor to maintain a set of pppd processes would have to start them
in a specific order to get the unit number allocations right. This is
turn makes later pppd processes dependent on earlier connections being
established.

Frederick Bruckman writes:
 > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Rex McMaster wrote:
 > 
 > > It seems that the unit number is allocated to pppd by an ioctl
 > > (PPPIOCGUNIT), and with random disconnections and re-connections it
 > > appears to be possible to end up with the unit numbers reversed.
 > > 
 > >   ... or am I missing something?
 > 
 > fredb@handy-> grep ppp /etc/rc.conf
 > ppp_peers="enteract laptop"		# /etc/ppp/peers to call
 > 
 > The isp is set up with "demand", and the laptop "silent persist".
 > Works for me.
 > 
 > 

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