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Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au> writes:

> Chat by itself cannot do the redialing, but you can handle this using a
> shell script instead of a single call to chat as your connect script.
> 
> Write a loop which does the dial part of the connect. Look at the status
> of chat which will tell you whether it was successful, or which abort
> condition caused it to stop. Exit with an error status, repeat the loop,
> or fall out the bottom if you connect successfully as appropriate.

Just watch out you don't ring up an enormous phone bill by leaving it
running. Normally this won't happen, but if the ISP (or you) has a
problem which let's the modem answer without a proper connection you
might end up with a big bill.

A good idea is to progressively back off. If you don't connect after 1
minute, back off to 2, 4 8 16, 32 etc. Either that or check on it once
in a while to make sure nothing funny is happening.