[ale] Keeping pppoe alive

Stephan Uphoff ups at tree.com
Mon Feb 21 11:30:09 EST 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:43, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:03:50AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Jim Seymour wrote:
> > >On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:29:09PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > >
> > >>Doesn't RP have a presistent connection option?
> > >
> > >
> > >I have that set. Still every now and then it will lose its connection.
> > 
> > I would go with the suggestion of cron/ping.  Speedfactory actually 
> > suggested this to me when I was having a similar problem.
> >
> 
> Thanks folks. I'll give it a try.
> 
> Later,
> Jim Seymour

Take a look at the pppd(8) manual page.
lcp-echo-failure and lcp-echo-interval should help you to detect link
failures.

Stephan 



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