🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:29:26 +1100, Health Communication Network
<peter.shilling@hcn.net.au> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have a linux machine that serves a room full of pcs for net access.
>
>I would like to know how to keep the PPP connection alive. The machine
>now may be a 24 hour link but the modem drops carrier from time to time.
>
>Is it possible to get it to redail and connect ppp again when it dies?

Howdy,

I'm Using pppupd, pretty simple to use. Small daemon and script, works
fine with sendmail & squid.



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Title:		pppupd
Version:	0.23
Entered-date:	Sun Feb  4 12:02:56 EST 1996
Description:	pppupd, is a small daemon package, which maintains,
and logs
		a dialup ppp connection. It does things such as
re-dialing
		upon connection drop, periodic pinging to aviod idle
		disconnects, and some other stuff.
Keywords:	ppp, serial, redial, log
Author:		swarthy@thetasys.com (Jake V. Bouvrie)
Maintained-by:	swarthy@thetasys.com (Jake V. Bouvrie)
Primary-site:	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Network/serial
		6.0kb	pppupd.0.22.tar.gz
		671	pppupd.0.22.lsm
Alternate-site:	ftp.thetasys.com /pub/pppupd/
		6.0kb	pppupd.0.22.tar.gz
		671	pppupd.0.22.lsm
Copying-policy: GPL




http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp/pppupd-0.23.tar.gz