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Re: Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with pppd.
And another possibility is that the persist option was introduced into
pppd AFTER the howto was written, thereby explaining all the mystery :-).
Schlomo
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, shaul wrote:
> [03:44:27 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | head -4
> Linux NET-3-HOWTO, Linux Networking.
> Terry Dawson, VK2KTJ, Alessandro Rubini (maintainer),
> alessandro.rubini@linux.it
> v1.3, 1 April 1998
> Broken pipe
> [03:44:56 shaul]$
> [03:46:24 shaul]$ zcat /usr/doc/HOWTO/NET-3-HOWTO.gz | grep -A27 "Maintaining
> a permanent connection to the net with pppd ."
> 6.24.1. Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with pppd .
>
> If you are fortunate enough to have a semi permanent connection to the
> net and would like to have your machine automatically redial your PPP
> connection if it is lost then here is a simple trick to do so.
>
> Configure PPP such that it can be started by the root user by issuing
> the command:
>
>
> # pppd
>
>
>
>
> Be sure that you have the `-detach' option configured in your
> /etc/ppp/options file. Then, insert the following line into your
> /etc/inittab file, down with the getty definitions:
>
>
> pd:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd
>
>
>
> This will cause the init program to spawn and monitor the pppd program
> and automatically restart it if it dies.
>
> [03:46:34 shaul]$
>
> What bothers me is that the HOWTO maintainer does not mention the persist
> option of the PPP daemon.
> Is it because his suggestion have some advantages over using the persist
> option ? Perhaps the persist option does not suit the described situation ?
> Perhaps using the persist option is completely equivalent to the method he
> describes, which is why he prefer not to metion redundant details ? And
> anyway, assuming that the persist method is suitable for dealing with a
> temporarily break in the permanent link, what are the merits and disadvantages
> of the persist option and what are those of the inittab entry method ?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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